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by datameta 2059 days ago
I'm curious about the chickens. Is this maybe in the same genre of how a shark becomes entranced if flipped upside down?
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It's similar, yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yo2UkL-n_Q

Pretty inconvenient, with chickens apparently this sometimes happens by accident. They don't get up, ever. They lie there until they get attacked or just die.

Fascinating... That must be a "drop dead" self-defense mechanism triggered by what looks to it like its beak drawing a line in the dirt due to it being dragged away by a predator.