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Mike the Headless Chicken survived for 18 months without a head (www.life.com)
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[–] huppakee@piefed.social 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The answer to the question that made me read the article:

Mike the headless chicken is fed through an eye dropper, directly into his esophagus, in 1945.

A suprise piece of information i stumbled upon:

Mike lived for 18 months after losing his head, finally succumbing at a motel in the Arizona desert in 1946 during one of his many appearances as a sideshow attraction in the American southwest

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 13 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

That's a gentle way of describing his death (he choked to death after his owner lost the little suction device needed to clear his throat). Poor Mike.

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt it's like anything to be a headless chicken. Whatever little consciousness there may have been probably shut off the moment the neck was severed.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

According to our current models, yes.

Assuming said models' brainstems're attached to consciousness(es), of course. Not many do. 🤫