Ok, so you don't believe it's possible for a chicken to live without his head. Well, it's happened at least once. It was on a farm in Colorado in 1945. Mike survived a killing of the chickens owned by a farmer. He lived another 18 months and traveled around the country. Life Magazine even featured Mike in one of its issues.
They first took the chicken to the University of Utah, where the chicken was put through a battery of tests and was deemed to be alive. Then, they toured the country. Mike died in 1947.
Dr Tom Smulders, a chicken expert at the Centre for Behaviour and Evolution at Newcastle University, contends that Mike did not bleed to death. He was able to survive because, in Smulders opinion, up to 80% of his brain by mass - and almost everything that controls the chicken's body, including heart rate, breathing, hunger and digestion - remained untouched.
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