Why do woodpeckers resist head impact injury: A biomechanical investigation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Wang, Lizhen ^a,b   CheungJason, Jason Tak Man ^c   Pu, Fang ^a   Li, Deyu ^a   Zhang, Ming ^b   Fan, Yubo ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c Li Ning Sports Science Research Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; HEAD INJURY; KINEMATICS; MICRO-COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; SENSOR; VELOCITY; VIDEORECORDING; WOODPECKER; ANIMAL; BEAK; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INJURY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKULL;

PICIDAE;

ANIMALS; BEAK; BIOMECHANICS; BIRDS; BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 80055034419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026490     Document Type: Article

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