Don't give up

[Wingmax]

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.


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[bananasiong]

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.

 

[dknguyen]

If I remember right, the dog was born with maldeformed front legs that were amputated rather than lost by some event.

 

[arrie]

Remarkable animals

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.

 

[Torben]

Not to downplay the dog and baboon living without legs, but that's nothing compared to living without a head.

Mike the chicken lived for 18 months without a head: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

Now, a chicken doesn't use its brain for much at the best of times, but that's still pretty darned impressive in my books.


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[arrie]

holy sh... cow, I mean chicken
Gives new meaning to chicken little, doesn't it.

 

[bananasiong]

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

 

[Mikebits]

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.

 

[arrie]

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).

 

[AllVol]

Chicken daily cycle: wake-up, eat, scrub, eat, poop, scrub, eat, rest, eat, scrub, eat, poop, scrub, eat, sleep, goto wakeup.

Sounds like some of the folks living on the dole here in the overly-generous US of A. (Except for the scrub part, of course).

 

[killivolt]

Not to downplay the dog and baboon living without legs, but that's nothing compared to living without a head.

Mike the chicken lived for 18 months without a head: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

Now, a chicken doesn't use its brain for much at the best of times, but that's still pretty darned impressive in my books.


Torben

Torben I am all way's surprised with the stuff you find in addition to your ability to research.

Impressive. kv

 

[Hank Fletcher]

There is always that funny interrupt that causes an egg to pop out, but that is not daily (under natural conditions).

That's not normal at all, for a rooster like Mike.

 

[colin mac]

The chicken should have been put down. The owners were money hungry.

 

[Torben]

The chicken should have been put down. The owners were money hungry.

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.


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[arrie]

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.

 

[Mikebits]

I might get some flack again for this post, but what the neck..... I mean heck.

You should get flack for that joke Not that I am nit pecking

Anyways, I think the peckerless chicken was fed though injections.

 

[Torben]

You should get flack for that joke Not that I am nit pecking

Anyways, I think the peckerless chicken was fed though injections.

According to what I've read, they fed it with an eyedropper, by placing food straight into its esophagus.


Torben

 

[dknguyen]

I am curious why it didn't bleed to death since some arteries surely must have been severed.

 

[Roff]

I am curious why it didn't bleed to death since some arteries surely must have been severed.

Read the Wikipedia link. It explains how the chicken survived.