WHY DON'T WOODPECKERS GET HEADACHES? -- by Steve Nadis
A year and a half ago, I wrote an article about why woodpeckers don't get headaches. I can't remember the details but it has something to do with the cushioning inside the cranium and the musculature on the head and neck. Now the chickens have come home to roost, so to speak. For the past week, a woodpecker has been going steadily at the tree in my backyard--right near my bedroom and office windows. I'm not going to complain, because it's part of nature and that woodpecker is probably doing something good for the tree and for the environment and for, or against, global warming (I should know after my article though the details presently escape me). Still, I have to say, maybe that woodpecker is not getting a headache from all his (her?) nonstop activity, but I certainly am.
