The Longest Surviving headless chicken

It was very difficult to decide where exactly to put this stiory of a headless chicken that survived 18 months. Science: Just how much of a brain does an animal need to survive?

But I decided that it was a perfect politcal metaphor.

Four more years ?

That would be a new world record !!!!

On September 10, 1945, a Wyandotte chicken belonging to Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorado, USA, had its head chopped off, but went on to survive for 18 months. Mike's owner, Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorada, USA, fed and watered the headless chicken directly into his gullet using an eyedropper. Mike eventually choked to death one night in an Arizona motel.

Sceptical scientists thought it was a hoax, so one week into Mike-the-headless-chicken�s physically-altered life, farmer Lloyd Olsen packed Mike up and took him on a cross-country tour from Fruita, Colorado to the University Of Utah in Salt Lake City. The axe blade, scientists discovered, had missed the five-and-a-half month old Wyandotte rooster�s jugular vein, and a clot had saved the chicken from bleeding to death.

Because Lloyd had aimed the axe so high, most of the brain stem was left at the top of the spine. One ear had also survived. Mike, it seemed, had lost the power to see and to cluck, but could still hear and think. Mike was also growing, weighing 1.1 kg. (2.5 lb.) when he first lost his head, and developing to a respectable 3.6 kg. (8 lb.) by the time he passed away.

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[edit on 5-11-2004 by John bull 1]

Eh? I can see nothing...are we supposed to go and find out the longest surviving headless chicken?

Is this in the politics forum to lighten the mood?

maybe he is making a point. We are running around like chickens with our heads cut off over politics?