If you ever wanted to give up, take a look at this guy.
Makes you think how easily we give up sometimes. It almost sent tears in my eyes when I saw these pictures.
Yeah I've received an email about this too, but don't know the story behind. If this is done by someone I hope him/her will be the dog without any leg in his/her next life.
Truly remarkable,
we had a similar case here in the hills around our wonderfully polluted dam.
A female baboon was spotted without the hind legs. She would tip onto the front legs and walk that way.
Pro at turning over garbage cans too.
And to top all that, she even had a little baby she was nursing one time.
No lies, I'm not sure if anyone ever captured her on camera, but she, along with the rest of her clan, frequented this resort that was sort of on the side of the mountain. The resort closed down some time ago, so I don't know what happened to this remarkable animal.
Where there's a will, there's a way.
Ha, I've read this some time ago. But I'm just wondering what is controlling every single movement without the head? The robot stops working if the microcontroller is removed
According to the article, a portion of the chickens bainstem was left intact, and this portion of the brain perform many of the basic functions like heatbeat and such.
Yes, I believe mikebits is correct.
And how much brain does chicken need in any case, probably very little.
Chicken daily cycle: wake-up, eat, scrub, eat, poop, scrub, eat, rest, eat, scrub, eat, poop, scrub, eat, sleep, goto wakeup.
There is always that funny interrupt that causes an egg to pop out, but that is not daily (under natural conditions).
Shoulda coulda woulda. Remember, this was 1945; attitudes towards such things were markedly different. And the family was likely not exactly swimming in money.
At any rate (and take this for what it's worth, as I certainly am no ornithological anatomist) as far as I know, the pain centres of the bird's brain would likely have been taken out with the higher portions of the brain (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3214/03-brain.html ). All that was really left was reflex and autonomic function. What was left would essentially have been an organic machine.
Anyway, what happened to that bird was *nothing* compared to what millions of chickens go through every day in high-volume commercial chicken farms. Anybody who's ever purchased a supermarket chicken can rest assured that Mike's life was probably better than the life of the one you just ate. And yes, I had chicken for dinner last night.
Couple of things still tickle me.
If it had no head, how would it eat to survive that long. Excuse me if the info was in the link.
Something else, should they have wanted to put the chicken out of its predicament, they would have had a hard time chopping its head of, which I believe was the accepted way of killing a chicken back then.
I can picture it, this fat farmer running with this cleaver after the chick, cleaving at air over its h....uhm.... neck with every swipe.
I might get some flack again for this post, but what the neck..... I mean heck.