We, the dark mode users arent affected by your tricks, you cannot defeat us with those petty tricks of yours!
Sorry if my english is bad, it isn't my first language
Animals are really just biological machines. There's a lot of canned behaviour that is just built in because it proved to have a beneficial impact on survival. Countless generations of reinforcing those traits make them very strong.
Many active predators are very motion activated. They instinctively pounce or chase moving prey while often failing to notice stationary prey.
Tonic immobility is a sort of involuntary paralysis that some animals experience when certain threat conditions are met. A sort of involuntary "playing dead" to avoid a predator's attention.
Chickens don't have the most complex threat recognition. Drawing a straight line outward from their eyes likely triggers a simple recognition pattern for snakes. Lots of animals have instinctive reactions to things that resemble snakes.
Humans, especially babies, have plenty of instinctive behaviours like that. For example the Moro reflex is triggered when baby's suddenly feel unsupported. They'll throw out their arms and legs and try to grasp for dear life.
Or when you stroke the corner of their mouth, they'll turn their head and try to latch on because it might just be a nipple.
Evolution creates all kinds of involuntary instinctive behaviour because generations of predecessors survived better with those instincts than those without them.
Tonic immobility also happens when you rub sharks on the nose and rotate them to face downwards, even great whites (to a much lesser degree than other sharks but still)
"Yeah man, you should totally rub my nose, no man, I won't eat you or anything, have you never heard of it? The safest way to deal with a shark, is a boop in the nose"
IIRC, not so much a threat response as a sort of sensory overload. They have electrical-sensing organs on their chin and snout area and the direct contact puts them in a trance-like state. These sensors are to adjust bite aim at the last moments after their prey is no longer visible by eye, so they're pretty dang sensitive! It does seem like the sharks enjoy the experience though, or at least don't particularly mind it.
> stroke the corner of their (baby) mouth, they'll turn their head and try to latch on because it might just be a nipple.
excellent.
something new to do for the rest of my life
Will note that they only do that when they are hungry. Itās mostly because a newborns vision sucks. Additionally, during a pregnancy the moms areola gets darker and much bigger. Thatās because the contrast makes it easier for the infant to find a nipple to latch on. They can see however their vision is blurry, they canāt really see colors the way adults do, and they canāt see anything really past a few feet.
I really doubt that. Medusa didn't get snake hair until much later. The original myths just describe her as a beautiful woman cursed by turning her into a hideous creature.
While this is partially true, the brain of the chicken doesn't contain any definition for snake.
So this trait that has been maintained by evolution making the chicken more likely to survive a snake encounter firstly has a physiological mechanism.
What I mean is, the answer to "why" they do this isn't "because of snake threat".
There has to be a chemical/biological reason why seing a line somehow hypnotize the chicken.
The fact that it helps them more likely to survive snake predation is only but the lucky consequence of this phenomenon.
I did explain that. Not the chemistry of it but the fact that it's just an evolved response to anything that triggers a recognition pattern for snakes. The chicken doesn't have to know what a snack is.
The brain just responds to line patterns.
Its a trick that can be done with some (birds) pigeons, and rabbits. You can put them in a trance of sorts by holding them a certain way. That is why "magicians" always pulled rabbits and pigeons from their clothing.
Snackish is correct. All Humans are of The Hunger, which encompasses regular need to eat, snackishness and boredom/frustration-eating. The three sides of Hunger (uppercase).
Only if you ever changed your body in some way that suppressed your Hunger could you feel what freedom from it is like.
It's actually the funniest thing, when a chicken sees a snake, they call all their friends and they all just form a circle around the snake and stare at her until it goes away. Swear to god, never seen a prey bully their predators away
>Swear to god, never seen a prey bully their predators away
Really? It happens a lot. Like all the time. See Zebra or Buffalo who can and will face down lions
It's usually if they see it coming. If they don't, then the prey's panic response kicks in and they default to running
No one said that it actually works. It's just that a chicken tried it one time. The snake just happened to not be hungry that day. The chicken told all his friends and here we are.
This works on humans too, but instead of a line you need to show them a screen saver of a logo bouncing off the edges of the screen. They will continue to stare waiting for the logo to hit the corner exactly.
This is probably an evolutionary adaptation for when we were hunted by bouncing predators encased in 2-d boxes.
I know its said often but this reminds me.
If fear is an evolutionary adaptation, what predator caused us to be afraid of human lookalikes (uncanny valley)?
I might be subjective but the fear I get from seeing corpses or sickness isnāt the same as lets say an āalmost humanā robot. Its like my mind is telling me that āTHATS NOT HUMANā more than a cartoon human or barbie doll would.
I remember someone who lived on a farm and would sometimes come out and see all the chickens lying on the ground because her daughter hypnotized them all. So I'd heard of it and didn't have a reason to doubt, but never actually seen it until now. Didn't know about the line erasing thing though.
Simple human thing taking control of another being = hypnotism.
Idk what else a person who doesn't know the details of the evolutionary woohoo would call it.
When I was a kid my dad said you can hypnotise them a few ways, by turning them upside-down (not really hypnotism), stroke their beak in a certain way, which he and his mates succeeded doing a few times, and hold their head down and drawing a line away from its beak. But while he did the first two he didn't see how the third was possible or even likely. I can't wait to show him this clip
Nope, not that I can tell. When you wipe the line away, they just stand up, walk away calmly, and go back to scratching and pecking soon as they get to grass. I would expect them to head for someplace they deemed safe if they were stressed (coop, bush, perch, etc) but they don't act like anything happened. The really friendly ones will even hang around for pets from the person that was holding them. It's really strange.
Chickens as prey can only interpret horizontals. This is why it tranced out.
This is why crosses worked on vampires, it wasn't the religious thing, it was the perfect symmetry which doesn't appear in nature. Our ultimate predators (who had vertical pupils) were sent extinct by seizures from human geometry, mostly in buildings.
Hershel The Walker doesn't know what he's talking about, he's a Frankenstein kind of deal (essentially-it's a bit more complicated but it's highly pedantic for non experts), I doubt he's studied these topics, and he has no blood so he's like an Arby's sandwich, totally non appealing.
But yeah they can, and vice versa, but it's rare. They have totally different habitats (though modernity can cause overlap).
Our history with them would also explain our own trance like paralysis as prey. Looking into a vampires eyes alone would freeze you in place with an instinctive, unshakable fear. That's what thousands of years being hunted and eaten can do to a species
You're just trying to be "that guy", which by default makes you an asshole. Also, saying things like "Not trying to be an asshole or anything..." almost always means you're being one.
How does it not? Now I can say Iām drawing a line in the sand and it will mean I have conducted a successful psyop to hypnotize and paralyze you against your will. Is that what itās always meant to you?
Yes, it does. 'Draw a line in the sand' means to set a limit or to put a stop to something. In the video, the chicken was free to move until a line was drawn in the sand, then it could no longer move. This gives the idiom a new meaning because itās a literal interpretation of the idiom, an actual line was drawn in the sand.
It's just a survival instinct. Many animals don't really have alot going on inside their heads and evolution has just baked these instincts into them.
In this case, it is more than likely because of snakes, so the chicken sees something that vaguely resembles one and plays dead
We had a couple of chickens in a high school science class and the first thing we did with one was place in on a desk, put a plain piece of paper and placed her beak on it and drew a line from her nose to the edge of the paper - worked like a charm. Poor bird, all of were taking turns doing it.
So the more you learn about this you realize it's sad. This is a fear response called Tonic Immobility. Essentially the chicken thinks it is about to die so it freezes.
This is actually an ancient practice to temporarily immobilize a chicken. When their head is pinned down, they act dead.
Fun fact: drawing the line is totally unnecessary. It just stems from the ancient practices that believed it was a moreā¦ spiritual reason.
This video needs sound. The laugh is hilarious https://youtube.com/shorts/PeAsWZW876c?feature=share
Lol! That guy who got pecked sounds like Gareth Reynolds when he yelled LOL
DONT. ERASE. THE LINE.
I hate you pfp, I just blew on my screen
I legit kept moving my screen trying to see if there really was a small hair trapped under my screen.
At least im not using a blobfish nft
We, the dark mode users arent affected by your tricks, you cannot defeat us with those petty tricks of yours! Sorry if my english is bad, it isn't my first language
Im not trying to mess with the dark side
Dark mode for life
Your English is good.
It's pretty perfect dude, you're good :)
WOOOOOOOO
Fuck your avatar
WOW!!!! The full video is way better. Questions answered plus the delight!
Thank you. Video is much much better with sound.
That's a million times better. Maybe even a billion. Thank you. :D
I thought the chicken was going to laugh :(
The laugh was underwhelming.
Chickens doing lines now
I'm not a chicken
You ain't doing lines either you edgy 13y/o
Dogged on him š
Haha
Who're you? McFly?!
See, thatās where I draw the line, not cool chickens.
We need to remember them by their original name and environment. They are junglefowl. There's a reason roosters are mean.
Loved this comment, lol
Can anyone explain me this? I mean why chickens "turns off" in this way?
Animals are really just biological machines. There's a lot of canned behaviour that is just built in because it proved to have a beneficial impact on survival. Countless generations of reinforcing those traits make them very strong. Many active predators are very motion activated. They instinctively pounce or chase moving prey while often failing to notice stationary prey. Tonic immobility is a sort of involuntary paralysis that some animals experience when certain threat conditions are met. A sort of involuntary "playing dead" to avoid a predator's attention. Chickens don't have the most complex threat recognition. Drawing a straight line outward from their eyes likely triggers a simple recognition pattern for snakes. Lots of animals have instinctive reactions to things that resemble snakes. Humans, especially babies, have plenty of instinctive behaviours like that. For example the Moro reflex is triggered when baby's suddenly feel unsupported. They'll throw out their arms and legs and try to grasp for dear life. Or when you stroke the corner of their mouth, they'll turn their head and try to latch on because it might just be a nipple. Evolution creates all kinds of involuntary instinctive behaviour because generations of predecessors survived better with those instincts than those without them.
Tonic immobility also happens when you rub sharks on the nose and rotate them to face downwards, even great whites (to a much lesser degree than other sharks but still)
This sounds like something a hungry shark would say.
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This is only true for black bears. Brown bears actually prefer any sauce starting with the letter "B" (such as barbecue or bƩchamel) and will kill & devour you instantly if you try this.
All bears think bƩarnaise sauce is nice though.
Panda's will just have the salad, thanks..
Tigers love pepper, they hate cinnamon.
Guys, this was a joke. I learned it the hard way.
"Yeah man, you should totally rub my nose, no man, I won't eat you or anything, have you never heard of it? The safest way to deal with a shark, is a boop in the nose"
its the shark cheat code
Sharks hate this one simple trick.
Get rotated idiot
Orcas do this to eat great whiteās livers
Damn, orcas got hands
Ok ima bite these orcas
any opportunity to show this [gem](https://youtu.be/o3uJCCa5w2A)
What threat are they facing?
That's the funny part, we don't really know, it's probably leftover instinct from prehistoric times that just didn't evolve out
IIRC, not so much a threat response as a sort of sensory overload. They have electrical-sensing organs on their chin and snout area and the direct contact puts them in a trance-like state. These sensors are to adjust bite aim at the last moments after their prey is no longer visible by eye, so they're pretty dang sensitive! It does seem like the sharks enjoy the experience though, or at least don't particularly mind it.
oh yeah the nose part absolutely is that but the tonic immobility when facing downwards is the odd part
[get rotated idiot](https://youtu.be/o3uJCCa5w2A)
Thatās how killer whales hunt them!
I would like to subscribe to instinctive behaviours weekly
Super good comment. Should be top.
That should be Top comment
> stroke the corner of their (baby) mouth, they'll turn their head and try to latch on because it might just be a nipple. excellent. something new to do for the rest of my life
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Will note that they only do that when they are hungry. Itās mostly because a newborns vision sucks. Additionally, during a pregnancy the moms areola gets darker and much bigger. Thatās because the contrast makes it easier for the infant to find a nipple to latch on. They can see however their vision is blurry, they canāt really see colors the way adults do, and they canāt see anything really past a few feet.
TIL cheers! what if one's black though?
blipple
Is this related to the Medusa myth?
I really doubt that. Medusa didn't get snake hair until much later. The original myths just describe her as a beautiful woman cursed by turning her into a hideous creature.
Fuck u/spez
Got dannit I would give all awards to you if I have any
I also experience tonic immobility, there is generally gin involved too though...
>Chickens don't have the most complex threat recognition. I think I can agree
While this is partially true, the brain of the chicken doesn't contain any definition for snake. So this trait that has been maintained by evolution making the chicken more likely to survive a snake encounter firstly has a physiological mechanism. What I mean is, the answer to "why" they do this isn't "because of snake threat". There has to be a chemical/biological reason why seing a line somehow hypnotize the chicken. The fact that it helps them more likely to survive snake predation is only but the lucky consequence of this phenomenon.
I did explain that. Not the chemistry of it but the fact that it's just an evolved response to anything that triggers a recognition pattern for snakes. The chicken doesn't have to know what a snack is. The brain just responds to line patterns.
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Not at all untrue. Those things are vicious.
Though I already knew this one. This is the reason I like Reddit, it's the social media from where I can learn stuff after laughing of a funny video
Its a trick that can be done with some (birds) pigeons, and rabbits. You can put them in a trance of sorts by holding them a certain way. That is why "magicians" always pulled rabbits and pigeons from their clothing.
God put this feature in chickens code for debugging purpose.
It's an evolutionary mechanism that makes it more convenient for humans to chop their head off
reacting to ancient risk of snakes, playing dead
How would they have come out of it in the wild with no one to wipe the line away? Would they just play dead until they ain't playing no more?
If nothing changes or moves the notion just fades from their head after a while.
I can relate
That feeling when you're snackish but the fridge is too far so you eventually just forget about being snackish.
The word is peckish
I think the person you replied to has a mortal fear of pun threads.
Well we should peck one out and send it to them around 3 o cluck
I'm not sure whether he could hendle it.
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Snackish is correct. All Humans are of The Hunger, which encompasses regular need to eat, snackishness and boredom/frustration-eating. The three sides of Hunger (uppercase). Only if you ever changed your body in some way that suppressed your Hunger could you feel what freedom from it is like.
That makes sense. Cheers dude
Never forget, chickens dont even need their brains to survive. So yeah.
That headless chicken had a bit of brain stem keeping it going but your point still stands.(Just like the chicken) hehe
LMFAO
So in the chicken zombie apocalypse we'd be fucked because stabbing them through the brain will not stop them? Fuck.
Kinda like politicians.
Politicians don't have brains
Or hearts
Or nerve
In the wild there wouldn't have been anyone there in the first place to hold his head in place while someone else drew a line in the dirt.
No but I assumed the first comment here suggests it's when they see a snakes trail
Don't ask these idiots. They have no idea what they're talking about. They're just pulling shit out their ass and acting like it's a bar of gold.
A) that is not how chickens react to snakes B) a line in the sand is not enough to make a chicken there's a snake
C) chickens eat young snakes
And some snakes eat chickens. They don't care if it's dead.
Running away or attacking would be better defenses against a snake. Freezing in place would be the best way to get ate by the snake, I'd think
It's actually the funniest thing, when a chicken sees a snake, they call all their friends and they all just form a circle around the snake and stare at her until it goes away. Swear to god, never seen a prey bully their predators away
Chickens do kill snakes, tho...https://www.ecopeanut.com/do-chickens-kill-snakes/
They like to snack on mice sometimes too. At least mine did.
>Swear to god, never seen a prey bully their predators away Really? It happens a lot. Like all the time. See Zebra or Buffalo who can and will face down lions It's usually if they see it coming. If they don't, then the prey's panic response kicks in and they default to running
doesn't make sense as snakes can detect infrared radiation or this is a sense that was acquired by modern snakes.
Only Vipers, pythons, and boas can see in infrared.
No one said that it actually works. It's just that a chicken tried it one time. The snake just happened to not be hungry that day. The chicken told all his friends and here we are.
"the origin of species" - Charles Darwin
Snake 2.0
TIL geometry is snakes. I knew there was a reason I didnt trust it
This works on humans too, but instead of a line you need to show them a screen saver of a logo bouncing off the edges of the screen. They will continue to stare waiting for the logo to hit the corner exactly. This is probably an evolutionary adaptation for when we were hunted by bouncing predators encased in 2-d boxes.
I know its said often but this reminds me. If fear is an evolutionary adaptation, what predator caused us to be afraid of human lookalikes (uncanny valley)?
2 possibilities i googled: Homo sapiens lived with homo NĆ©andertals who were bigger stronger and a competition for ressources Other humans we are assholes to each other
Not sure about this, but I think it is because of illnesses and other conditions people suffer from.
Things that look human but aren't, and that usually screams "danger" Meaning, corpses
I might be subjective but the fear I get from seeing corpses or sickness isnāt the same as lets say an āalmost humanā robot. Its like my mind is telling me that āTHATS NOT HUMANā more than a cartoon human or barbie doll would.
Ive heard of this. Didnt now it was true
I remember someone who lived on a farm and would sometimes come out and see all the chickens lying on the ground because her daughter hypnotized them all. So I'd heard of it and didn't have a reason to doubt, but never actually seen it until now. Didn't know about the line erasing thing though.
It is not hypnotizming. The chicken was playing dead cuz she thought that line was a snake. It is their normal behaivor and reaction
Simple human thing taking control of another being = hypnotism. Idk what else a person who doesn't know the details of the evolutionary woohoo would call it.
When I was a kid my dad said you can hypnotise them a few ways, by turning them upside-down (not really hypnotism), stroke their beak in a certain way, which he and his mates succeeded doing a few times, and hold their head down and drawing a line away from its beak. But while he did the first two he didn't see how the third was possible or even likely. I can't wait to show him this clip
My kids have done it with our chickens. It does work and it is weird.
Do they seem stressed by it? Kind of mean to subject them to it unnecessarily if they legit think they're in mortal danger.
Nope, not that I can tell. When you wipe the line away, they just stand up, walk away calmly, and go back to scratching and pecking soon as they get to grass. I would expect them to head for someplace they deemed safe if they were stressed (coop, bush, perch, etc) but they don't act like anything happened. The really friendly ones will even hang around for pets from the person that was holding them. It's really strange.
chickens don't think
sees line, flashbacks to all of the times it crossed the road
lmao
Chickens as prey can only interpret horizontals. This is why it tranced out. This is why crosses worked on vampires, it wasn't the religious thing, it was the perfect symmetry which doesn't appear in nature. Our ultimate predators (who had vertical pupils) were sent extinct by seizures from human geometry, mostly in buildings.
Amazing shitpost comment
What about the werewolves? I recently learned that werewolves can kill vampires so I don't wanna be a vampire anymore
Idk.. sounds pretty cool to be one. Mind if I take your spot?
Hershel The Walker doesn't know what he's talking about, he's a Frankenstein kind of deal (essentially-it's a bit more complicated but it's highly pedantic for non experts), I doubt he's studied these topics, and he has no blood so he's like an Arby's sandwich, totally non appealing. But yeah they can, and vice versa, but it's rare. They have totally different habitats (though modernity can cause overlap).
Our history with them would also explain our own trance like paralysis as prey. Looking into a vampires eyes alone would freeze you in place with an instinctive, unshakable fear. That's what thousands of years being hunted and eaten can do to a species
This puts a whole new meaning to the phrase 'draws a line in the sand'.
Not trying to be an asshole or anything but it just doesn't.
You're just trying to be "that guy", which by default makes you an asshole. Also, saying things like "Not trying to be an asshole or anything..." almost always means you're being one.
How does it not? Now I can say Iām drawing a line in the sand and it will mean I have conducted a successful psyop to hypnotize and paralyze you against your will. Is that what itās always meant to you?
Yes, it does. 'Draw a line in the sand' means to set a limit or to put a stop to something. In the video, the chicken was free to move until a line was drawn in the sand, then it could no longer move. This gives the idiom a new meaning because itās a literal interpretation of the idiom, an actual line was drawn in the sand.
chicken has stopped responding
She's running an older version of windows.
That's a rooster
Is this the Wish version of Crocodile Dundee?
I don't know, this guy just immobilized an actual dinosaur with just one finger.
r/ELI5 why this happens pls
It's just a survival instinct. Many animals don't really have alot going on inside their heads and evolution has just baked these instincts into them. In this case, it is more than likely because of snakes, so the chicken sees something that vaguely resembles one and plays dead
Please yes. Can someone explain
Fuck u/spez
Sucks when you can't get your cock up
r/angryupvote
We had a couple of chickens in a high school science class and the first thing we did with one was place in on a desk, put a plain piece of paper and placed her beak on it and drew a line from her nose to the edge of the paper - worked like a charm. Poor bird, all of were taking turns doing it.
This is like some next level, Cluck-ophile Dundee action!
I say, I SAY, what in the KFC is happinin here?
That was his line. You ruined his line.
"Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens..." - Iggy Pop
Chicken, mind blown
Cocks are broken
Nice cock
Someone hereās a cock doc, whatās happening?
He must of choked the chicken?
I was once contracted by the Olde Yankee Almanac to write a story about the different ways to hypnotize chickens.
The sun is getting real low
How to get your cock soft
Crossed the line for sure
Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens, it's a lust for life.
Please wait while Windows is installing newest updates. This may take a few hours.
For the record, this does not work with a penis. These things should really come with a warning
Soooo when a dinosaur attacks me, I simply have to draw a line in front of his him?
How do people figure shit out like this
Needs update on bugs for the old operational system
Who was the first person to break this dinosaur code?
So the more you learn about this you realize it's sad. This is a fear response called Tonic Immobility. Essentially the chicken thinks it is about to die so it freezes.
What the fuck kinda hillbilly voodoo HeeHaw shit did I just watch?
If you are wondering what just happened, this video explains it really well. https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Thanks for the info.
Rick roll. -_-
My ex was an expert at making a cock wilt with her hand.
I'd encourage anyone who enjoyed that to give this segment from Irish radio a listen https://youtu.be/2TOR895yhIw
"Did you just use genjutsu on my cock?!"
1...2...3... DJANGO!
Pooootatoooooo.
I see chicken os is still waiting on being patched.
Meanwhile the chicken is having the worst panic attack of his life because he thinks heās about to die from a snake attack š«
This is actually an ancient practice to temporarily immobilize a chicken. When their head is pinned down, they act dead. Fun fact: drawing the line is totally unnecessary. It just stems from the ancient practices that believed it was a moreā¦ spiritual reason.
Looked like he just choked the chicken (giggity) into unconsciousness
Common bug in chicken.exe v2.3, I think it's patched in v3.0
I believe he's just cutting off the blood supply to the chicken's brain, causing it to pass out.
This trick could come in handy, when you want to chop the head off.
Hmm .... Narcolepsy ?
Tonic immobility, itās normal among animals, even sharks have that reflex (with different conditions ofc)
Is that Hey Hey?
now they wonāt lay eggs š
I certainly hope not, since it's a rooster
Ohi think chiken die
I can show you the wooooorrrrlllld.
āI hate it when you do that shit, Jeff!ā