Green Woodpecker With a Spare Head

Have you ever wondered why woodpeckers, which peck their beaks against trees thousands of times a day, don’t suffer from concussions—or at least severe headaches? Well, we don’t have enough space here to delve deeply into this ornithological peculiarity. But this specimen here seems to have solved the problem in its own way: it simply carries a spare head with it. In the 1960s, Ernst Wildi-Rohr acquired more than a dozen lithographs directly from Fritz, always number 99 in the edition and individually enhanced by the artist’s hand; unfortunately, we do not know how this all came about.