🔥 A woodpecker's tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull to protect its brain from over 1000g of force when it's hammering away.

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image showing 🔥 A woodpecker's tongue is so long that it wraps around its skull to protect its brain from over 1000g of force when it's hammering away.

joshtror on April 28th, 2018 at 19:30 UTC »

That's just ridiculous

velsee93 on April 28th, 2018 at 20:21 UTC »

It uses its tongue for a cushion? Crazy!

Selachophile on April 28th, 2018 at 21:16 UTC »

I have a friend who works on woodpeckers in Sri Lanka (he's a scientist). When handling them he has to use eye protection because they can gouge/poke your eyes pretty severely with their tongues as a defense.