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They don't remember a thing, huh?
Interesting... I wonder if it works on sheep.

Trancey!

Great clip!:) Quite intense.

Is Pigeon in a trance now?

does it work on any mammals?

the playing dead theory doesn't seem to fit the gator, what would he have to play dead from, unless it's some ancient response, playing dead to fool a raptor or whatever.

also interesting that it works on birds and reptiles, lending credence to the theory that dinos evolved into modern birds. (jurrassic park theme)

^They aren't born that big

They should do this to animals used for food before they are slaughtered. I heard we eat our bad karma in the form of animal adrenaline in our meat because our cattle/poultry/pork freaks out before being executed. Not that our real karma would be any better, at least we wouldn't be able to taste it...

comming up next: Animals in a trance with silly hats!

They don't remember a thing? Did he ask them this question?

>> ^Memorare:
the playing dead theory doesn't seem to fit the gator, what would he have to play dead from, unless it's some ancient response, playing dead to fool a raptor or whatever.

expanding on Crosswords response:
Snakes, wading birds, osprey, raccoons, otters, large bass, garfish, and larger alligators.

taken from here

"They don't remember a thing"

1. Chickens are stupid. They don't remember anything as a matter of course.
2. If pigeons were any more stupid, they'd forget to breathe.
3. That alligator looked like he remembered... remembered he wants to kill that asshole who shoved his eyes into the sand.

i dont have any sound on this computer... which incidentally kills half the videos on the sift. Could anyone explain to me wtf is goin on w/ these animals? How are they put into a trance? Is it just from being upside down???

It might be one of those myths, but I've heard that chickens have so short memory span that if you pick them up and turn them on the side, they'll struggle for a bit, but then simply forget that they are supposed to be upright, and now assume that sideways is normal. I've seen people do it to them, and thats exactly how they behave, but I suspect it might be a defence mechanism to save energy for an opportune moment to escape.

my dog does this too. submissive.

I like turtles.

It works on women too. It just involves a lot of alcohol before you put them on their back.

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This works on human females as well. I have well-documented examples.


I've said too much.

When I was growing up, we usually had somewhere between 20-40 chickens. Mostly we wanted them for home-raised eggs, so we always tried to buy all pullet chicks (female) rather than straight run (unsorted luck of the draw). However, determining the sex of newly hatched chicks is a bit tricky, and you usually get 1-2 roosters in with your batch of hens. If we were feeling industrious, we would kill the males to eat when they got fully grown yet not too old and tough (plucking, gutting, and preparing a whole chicken is a lot of work, particularly when you don't do it often enough to get a good technique).

I remember that we used to have a big railroad tie/log set up with 2 large nails in it for this purpose. My dad would take the rooster, put its neck between the nails, and then have me hold it down so it couldn't thrash itself free while he chopped its head off with an axe or large hatchet.

One day we happened to be doing this when an old-timer visitor was around the house. He saw us getting set up, and said "here, I can make that easier for you". He took the rooster, held it on the ground with one eye looking towards the horizon, and drew a line in the dirt following the direction it was looking as shown in this video. Just like it showed here, that rooster immediately stopped thrashing and went into the full trance. The old timer then took the hatchet and dispatched the rooster in a quick chop, without it ever moving (although they do then "run in circles" for a short time due to the muscle spasms in the legs once removed of their heads). That became our new standard way of dispatching the occasional rooster.

This can also be done to sharks if you turn them upside down to induce tonic immobility. There is a video floating around of an Orca/Killer Whale turning a Great White upside down before killing it.

Wikipedia has a good page about these kind of trances: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_death

I am so going to try this with a chicken next time I take my kids to a petting zoo.