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IIRC this theory was debunked some time ago by a study. If you think about it, any dampening within the skull would lessen the force of the pecking and the bird would have to hammer away harder.
Edit: Link to a study
Reminds me of a joke I’m going to attempt to translate:
- Why do woodpeckers have beaks?
- So they don’t smash their heads against the tree.
That made me chuckle, thanks for posting it. Kinda reminds me of a joke-phrase in American English that goes “If a frog had wings it wouldn’t bump its ass when it hopped.”
If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike
Subhanallah.