Page 103 - Wonderful Creatures: Children! Have You Ever Thought ?

HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)

Woodpeckers make their nests and food stores

by pecking holes in trees. The speed at which a
woodpecker bores into a tree with its bill is
approximately 40 kilometers/hour (25 miles/hour). This, in fact, is

an extraordinary speed that might have damaged the woodpecker.

However, there is a special locking system in the bird’s beak so
that it does not sustain injury. If this special system did not exist,
the woodpecker's beak would crack in two because of that high

speed. Besides, if the impact of the stroke went directly to the

brain, then the bird would lose consciousness. Yet, such a thing
never happens since Allah created the bird together with what it
needs. The woodpecker's brain is placed at the same level as its

beak. Muscles on the lower part of the beak act like “shock absor-

bers” and reduce the shock that occurs while boring into the tree.

What we have mentioned so far are only a few of the general cha-
racteristics of woodpeckers. Apart from those mentioned, every

woodpecker species has many characteristics peculiar to itself.
Now let's consider a kind of woodpecker that hides acorns in

trees.

Throughout summer, the acorn woodpecker bores “holes” in a
dead tree trunk because at the end of the summer it will fill these

holes with acorns, on which it will feed during winter. Acting like

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