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Special thanks to Dr. Lorna Gibson of MIT for her woodpecker biomechanics expertise
Three-dimensional reconstructions based on CT data courtesy of DigiMorph.org
Pileated woodpecker slo-mo footage courtesy of Dr. Robert Shadwick/University of British Columbia
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Maroon, Joseph C., et al. "Chronic traumatic encephalopathy in contact sports: a systematic review of all reported pathological cases." PloS one 10.2 (2015): e0117338.
May, Philip RA, et al. "Woodpecker drilling behavior: an endorsement of the rotational theory of impact brain injury." Archives of Neurology 36.6 (1979): 370-373.
Schwab, Ivan R. "Cure for a headache." British Journal of Ophthalmology86.8 (2002): 843-843.
Wang, Lizhen, et al. "Why do woodpeckers resist head impact injury: a biomechanical investigation." PloS one 6.10 (2011): e26490.
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