Every say he fed Mike the chicken through a dropper into his throat water, milk and grains. Mike was a good chicken and lived almost normally, mines his lack of a head. 18 months after his beheading mike died choking on a piece of grain. RIP Mike he had a good life and 18 months of fame.
Besides for the story of the chicken being awesomely cool, it shows how much the brain stem has control over a body. Mike the chicken survived without a head because he had a brain stem. The proves how much the it does.
The brain stem has many different parts that all have jobs that keep us alive.
The Medulla regulate are heart and lungs. The two things we defiantly need to survive.
The Pons help the medulla with the heart and lungs. It also is in charge of our sleep and dreams and how are body moves. If you go through a few days without sleeping you can die.
The Reticular Formation deals with sleep and arousal. With our arousal we would just be sleeping all the time and die.
The cerebellum controls are balance and movement. If we didn't have balance we can just fall over and crush are body and die at any moment.
Are brain stem is awesome and is what keeps us alive. Just like it kept Mike the headless Chicken alive, it keeps us alive!
I have heard about headless chickens being able to live from my Grandma. She used to go the Shochet with her father before Shabbat most friday afternoons. When she got there she say chickens running around with out their heads. I never knew until this week how it was that a chicken could live without its head. Our brainstem is the most vital part of the brain and the body by far. People always say our heart is the most important, but the heart doesn't work on its own, the brainstem control.
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