What a species. Tens of thousands of children die daily from hunger related
causes, and we honor and are concerned about surviving headless chickens.
Rip Pisacreta
>From: "Richard Platt"
>
>For those interested in headless chickens you might want to check out the
>following websites. They report on Mike, a chicken that had his head cut
>off in 1945 and managed to live for at least 18 months after that.
>Apparently most of his head was chopped off but the brainstem was intact.
>The owners fed him with an eyedropper through the open esophagus. The
>first site below has photos of Mike that appeared in Life Magazine back in
>1945. The town of Fruita Colorado even has a day in honor of Mike the
>chicken.
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