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Zombie Bird

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I spotted this picture over at the Quartertothree forums and you can see a larger version of the photo here. The picture speaks for itself and it is seriously freaking me out. I thought at first this must be a digitally manipulated photo or something but people are saying that it is completely plausible. Someone please tell me that this is not actually possible!

5 thoughts on “Zombie Bird”

  1. Wah Lao Eh! Sick!
    Big bird owns small bird!
    Small bird zombified!
    Gross! Yuck!
    Some weird voodoo or black magic must be going on here.

    http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showpost.php?s=53fd8830200949911a4f74a0e6b3cc66&p=1219718&postcount=26

    Well, it looks to me like the raptor essentially ripped the bird’s throat clean off, without actually severing the spine. So the spinal cord was intact. As other posts here have mentioned, birds have an amazing amount of neuronal function for several minutes after death.

    So despite the fact that the bird’s brain was not receiving any blood flow whatsoever, and despite the agonizing pain the bird must have been in, its die-hard (literally!) little brain was still active enough — and connected enough — to tell the body to get up and make like nothing in particular happened.

    Evidently that particular bird’s spine is also stiff enough (or there were enough spinal ligaments remaining) that its head didn’t just flop over, but instead perched on top like a still-thinking brain lollipop on a nice vertebral stick.

    MMMMMMMM, TASTY.

    Of course, it likely keeled over for good mere moments later. AT LEAST, I GODDAMNED WELL HOPE SO.

    This guy’s reply seems logical enough.
    Perhaps it is possible?

    Deimos is not a bird expert. -_-

  2. Yeah, I read that. I post as “deccan” on the qt3 and I was the one saying that this shouldn’t be possible, but I got outvoted.

  4. Yeah, poor bird was ripped badly. It’s skin is not there. But, once, my dog ripped my farm chicken’s wing and it’s skin just like this. That chicken didn’t survive more than 4 days. We tried to heal it.

    So, that bird looks terribly weakened, look at it’s eye.. it’s seeing death. I’ve heard, before death, victim becomes surprisingly hyper-active. Seems like same was going on with that bird.

  5. That’s a good story PN and reminiscent of the link to Mike the Headless Chicken in the original QT3 thread. It’s a story about a chicken that had most of its head chopped off in 1945 and lived for 18 months after that. Just when you think you’ve hard it all before, something like this pops up and you realize that truth really can throw up stranger things than fiction.

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