Originally posted by Baylin
Very Good!If the chicken brain is anything like the human brain, which on more than a few people I'm sure it is. Then the centres that control the respiratory/cardiac functions are in the brain stem which is the part that joins the brain to the spinal cord!
Correct! That's how it survived.
Originally posted by skule
dudes how is that possible even if part of the stem was left, i mean common that lil bit controls walking crowing eating jumping around? btw how does a chicken crow when its head is chopped off? Also how does it eat or walk with out its eyes or nose ie its senses???
It is it's instinct to crow. It does it mearly because it's brain says it should.
Also, they straw-fed it. It choked on a kernel of corn and died.