Page 863 - Atlas of Creation Volume 1

Harun Yahya

each other. Termites carry on with their task as if they were never separated from each other and ordained
from a single place.

The Woodpecker

Everyone knows that woodpeckers build their nests by pecking tree trunks. The point many people do
not consider is how woodpeckers undergo no brain haemorrhage when they so strongly tattoo with their

head. What the woodpecker does is in a way similar to a human driving a nail in the wall with his head. If a
human ventured to do something like that, he would probably undergo a brain shock followed by a brain
haemorrhage. A woodpecker, however, can peck a hard tree trunk 38-43 times between 2.10 and 2.69 seconds
and nothing happens to it.

Nothing happens because the head structure of woodpeckers are created as fit for this job. The wood-
pecker's skull has a "suspension" system that reduces and absorbs the force of the strokes. There are special
softening tissues between the bones in its skull. 179

The Sonar System of Bats

Bats fly in pitch dark without trouble and they have a very interesting navigation system to do this. It is

what we call "sonar" system, a system whereby the shapes of the surrounding objects are determined ac-
cording to the echo of the sound waves.
A young person can barely detect a sound with a frequency of 20,000 vibrations per second. A bat fur-
nished with a specially designed "sonar system", however, makes use of sounds having a frequency of be-
tween 50,000 and 200,000 vibrations per second. It sends these sounds in all

directions 20 or 30 times each second. The echo of the sound is so powerful
that the bat not only understands the existence of objects in its path, but also
detects the location of its swift-flying prey. 180

Adnan Oktar 861