but have you ever wondered how woodpeckers dont get like brain injury from pecking so dang hard? Well I was reading and they have like a hole or something in their skull that they stick their tounge in and wrap around their brain or something to protect it. wierd but very cool huh? I dont think that happened by chance or evolution or whatever else.
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"they have like a hole or something in their skull that they stick their tounge in and wrap around their brain or something to protect it"
You have a hole in your skull and I think your brain leaked out.
I'm like, taking a trip back to the 80's right now. I just gotta get out my wicked groady LP of Frank Zappa and hear "Valley Girl" again, OK? Cos those woodpeckers eat, like, bugs and, ew, GROSS ME OUT!
"but have you ever wondered how woodpeckers dont get like brain injury from pecking so dang hard? Well I was reading and they have like a hole or something in their skull that they stick their tounge in and wrap around their brain or something to protect it. wierd but very cool huh?"
Say what? Without actually looking it up , I would guess they have some sort of built in "shock absorber". I know for fucking sure that they don't wrap their tongue around their brain.
Sheesh.
"I dont think that happened by chance or evolution or whatever else."
Bullshit is always created. Usually by the ignorant.
OMG, this is too funny. I wish I could wrap my tongue around my brain. Would it tickle?
There's an old saying that the sexiest organ in the body is the brain. I'm thinking how that could work here...
evolution and adaptation: Oh! The horror!
their brains are tightly packed against the skull to prevent a countra-coup concussion. In humans a countra-coup means the brain will "slosh" back and forth against the skull bruising it. In the woodpecker it is tightly packed so no countra-coup to bruise the brain. That's as about as simple as I can get. There is a hole in the human skull, the foramina where the extension of the spinal cord(medulla oblongata) enters and exits. As of yet I've been unable to get my tongue around there and wrap it around my brain. You may want to call Gene Simmons and see if he's accomplished that feat.
"...I dont think that happened by chance or evolution or whatever else ."
In normal speak, this means that it didn't happen at all. I agree.
[I dont think that happened by chance or evolution or whatever else.]
I don't think it happened, either.
Umm...I thought it was because the woodpecker's brain was tightly packed so that it doesn't slosh around in an impact like our's do. Since that's how they acquire food, it's exactly the sort of thing that evolution would have provided them. If they got traumatic brain injury from hunting food, they wouldn't survive, meaning they would fall right out of the gene pool. Have you actually read what the theory of evolution says, or do you just listen to Kent Hovind?
EPIC FUCKING FAIL.
The money quote:
"How are woodpeckers able to withstand rapid, repeated percussion without sustaining brain injury? This was looked at by Gibson (2006), and the rather disappointing conclusions were that the small size of the brain and short duration of the impacts helped the brain withstand high deceleration, as did the shape of the brain (it's longest axis is arranged dorsoventrally rather than anteroposteriorly). I say that these conclusions were 'disappointing' as I imagined that woodpeckers had evolved some sort of unique, shock-absorbing, brain-cushioning specialisations. It has in fact been suggested that the muscles at the tongue base might serve this function, but this can't be true as these muscles wrap around the back and top of the skull and don't have any contact with the brain itself."
-- from "Woodpeckers: barbed tentacles and the avoidance of brain injury," Tetrapod Zoology blog post, (c) 2008 Darren Naish, http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology .
Shorter Darren Naish: "Woodpeckers withstand brain injury because they're coneheads."
superman27e, gotta work on that comprehension part of reading your Ranger Rick Magazine:
"A woodpecker's brain is packed very tightly into its skull, surrounded by specialized spongy bones that serve to protect it.
And, because there's almost no space between the brain and the skull, the woodpecker's brain can't rattle around on impact.
Some scientists also believe that the woodpecker's sling-like tongue, which actually coils once around its brain before anchoring to the skull, helps to reduce the shock of hammering."
"Some scientists also believe that the woodpecker's sling-like tongue, which actually coils once around its brain before anchoring to the skull, helps to reduce the shock of hammering."
That's different than sticking their tongues in their brains. Still a Fail.
The old, I'm to stupid and/or lazy to learn natural science, so I'll just make some real stupid shit up, that should do the trick.
Or you got it correct and you don't think, you didn't need the rest of the sentence.
Xians you can't live with em and the season on em closed.
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