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Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 22:21:44 -0500
Subject: headless chickens

Robin Helweg-Larsen (#5671) mentions chickens running around with their heads
cut off.

Although I haven't seen it myself, as I understood it when I worked on a farm
many years ago, chickens seldom run after their heads are cut off. When they
do, it is because the head was cut too close, and part of the brain stem or
upper spinal cord, containing the relevant circuits, are still there. 

Robert Ettinger 


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