Not a hoax?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
Beheading
On September 10, 1945, farmer Lloyd Olsen of
Fruita,
Colorado,
United States,
was planning to eat supper with his mother-in-law and was sent out to
the yard by his wife to bring back a chicken. Olsen chose a
five-and-a-half-month-old cockerel named Mike. The axe missed the
jugular vein, leaving one ear and most of the
brain stem intact.
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Wow -
Post mortem
It was determined that the axe had missed the
jugular vein[5]
and a clot had prevented Mike from bleeding to death. Although most of
his head was severed, most of his brain stem and one ear were left on
his body. Since basic functions (breathing, heart rate, etc.) as well as
most of a chicken's reflex actions are controlled by the brain stem,
Mike was able to remain quite healthy. This is a good example of central
motor generators enabling basic homeostatic functions to be carried out
in the absence of the cerebral cortex.
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