Demonstration of Chicken Keeping Head Stable As Body Moves

by Scott Beale on November 26, 2008 · 3 comments

Chickens have the uncanny ability to keep their head stable while their body moves around. Here’s Destin, a mechanical engineer and missle tester from Priceville, Alabama, demonstrating this unique phenomenon with a family chicken.

via Waxy

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1 Andrew November 26, 2008 at 2:20 pm

Word for word that chicken is thinking… “Once I finish the corn I'm coming for the humans. And I will start with your eyeballs… Hey, wait… Why do you have a hatchet? Oh hen of God, helpppppppp.”

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2 Arkaoss December 3, 2008 at 11:54 am

Hummingbirds do it too!
Check out this hummingbird video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujN4osRD22E

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3 Lloyd Budd December 9, 2008 at 3:32 pm

It's not an uncommon trait among birds.

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