Joanna McKittrick

Joanna McKittrick was a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego.

How Do Woodpeckers Avoid Brain Injury?

January 31, 2020 • by Joanna McKittrick and Jae-Young Jung

Woodpeckers have the unusual ability to use their beaks to hammer into the trunks of trees to make holes to extract insects and sap. Even more impressive they do this without hurting themselves.