# Anyone up for zombie woodpeckers?

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**Created:** [January 11, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-up-for-zombie-woodpeckers/776871 "2017-01-11T15:40:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-up-for-zombie-woodpeckers/776871/1 "2017-01-11T15:40:48Z")

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OK, not zombies. But rather, [BRAIN EATING](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science/these-woodpeckers-will-drill-your-skull-and-eat-your-brains-if-youre-baby-dove-180961656/). (warning, graphic video)

This is why I love being a scientist.

Also, woodpeckers are assholes.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-up-for-zombie-woodpeckers/776871/2 "2017-01-11T15:53:18Z")

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> [@mozchron](#):
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> Also, woodpeckers are assholes.

Indisputably. Well known as the biggest jerks in the avian world. Not an easy reputation to achieve considering some of the competition like crows and mockingbirds.

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**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-up-for-zombie-woodpeckers/776871/3 "2017-01-11T17:44:55Z")

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> [@mozchron](#):
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> Also, woodpeckers are assholes.

I always thought they were Peckerwoods.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-up-for-zombie-woodpeckers/776871/4 "2017-01-11T22:15:18Z")

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> [@mozchron](#):
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> Anyone up for zombie woodpeckers?

According to rule 34, there are those who can’t get up _without_ zombie woodpeckers…

I, myself, am no ornithologist but I still vote hummingbirds as the biggest avian jerks. We’re just lucky they are so freaking tiny.