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And HOW is that possible? Does this mean that chickens don't have brains? or do they just rely on their spinal cords in stead of their brains?
I am remember ing that phrase "Don't run around like a chicken with its head cut off." Why would any body want to do to that?! Just let the chicken die of old age before you eat it.
No it isn't just chickens that run around with their heads cut off.
It is Wasps.
I hate wasps so much, I decided to snip them up. To my surprise, all the remains of the wasps kept moving around. Of particular is the head and the body. The head moves (The antennae and mouth) and the body moves and even walks and flies??!!
So Wasps have no central nervous system ... I am wondering if they are chopped in half, does that mean two halves are separate individual wasps, albeit two halves of a previously whole wasp?! I mean, do the two halves now have some self awareness as TWO creatures instead of the same creature?! If so, then my topic is treading onto the philosophy thread. One time I decided to place the head next to the body and watch the head see its helpless body and have the body attempt to ram into its helpless head. That theory is based on if the wasp, even though it has no central nervous system, it is still considered the same being. It would want to reconnect to itself. But what if they are two separate beings with free will?
Yes I know, I am half asleep while typing this, but I am serious. I really want to know how they live with no head. And how do they function, and how long can they function split in half?!
No this does not mean I am going to try to experiment on chickens. Chickens never did any thing to me, nor did they harm any body else either. So just stop harming the chickens lol. Let them run freely, WITH their heads intact.
Your one sick sob, dude. You related to dr.mengele or perhaps jeff dahmer. They both performed such experimentation to the horror of their victims. Wonder if your head would recognize your body if severed. Sounds cool huh?? Sick bastard.
I remembered that dumb expression running like a chicken with its head cut off. It's not like I invented that saying!! Nor do I approve of it, I don't even approve butchering chickens.
And I was obviously exterminating wasps. I really doubt I am the very first person to have every cut off a wasp head by accident and not iced it didn't just die. I googled it and lots of other people cut off wasps heads (for what every the reason) but I don't know whether some thing with no central nervous system (more than one nervous system) what level of consciousness and level of self awareness it has, especially if it is cut in half.
I mean bees are one thing. I found a bee trapped in side and then I let it crawl on my hand and I put it out the window and it then flew away. And then it came back and crawled on me and then flew outside and If I did not know any better, I would interpret it as the bee thanking me for saving its life, or perhaps the bee was trying to figure out why some thing (me) much bigger than it, saved its life. And I plant the sunflowers which attracts bees.
But I have found wasps to be wasps are useless annoying pests.
I remember watching chickens butchered when I was young. They would use a stump with two nails driven in close together but the heads pulled apart to form a V. The farmer would catch the head of the chicken in the V while pulling on it with the chicken's legs. Then they would chop off the head and toss the chicken. Yes it flew, flapped it's wings and sometimes pecked the ground as if it was eating. But the lack of blood eventually stopped the movement.
More primitive animals like snakes and turtles can take considerably longer to die. There was the story of a farmer that lost a chicken head to the head of a snapping turtle that he had beheaded hours before - I don't know if it is true; but I would not want to put my fingers in the mouth to find out.
Wasps are pollinators. They perform a necessary function for plants to survive. They should not be destroyed.
Wasps are destroyed when they create a home in the peak over my front door. Or my garage corners. Or under my deck rails. I don't behead them, though (would not get that close!). I just spray their nests at dusk.
Wasps are destroyed when they create a home in the peak over my front door. Or my garage corners. Or under my deck rails. I don't behead them, though (would not get that close!). I just spray their nests at dusk.
Those are mud dauber wasps that build their mud tunnel homes for raising their young. I have them also. They have never been a problem. If one wants to remove the mud nests, do it in the winter after they have departed. If you have a garden you can see them there during the day sipping nectar and pollinating.
Other wasps build their nests in a variety of different places, in the ground, in cavities in trees, some create their own from wood, etc.
Yeah, I recall a TV show about a chicken that lived for a long time with no head. They fed it by dropping corn into its neck.
Still trying to figure it out.
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What was that chicken's name? Mike? 
One time I decided to place the head next to the body and watch the head see its helpless body and have the body attempt to ram into its helpless head. That theory is based on if the wasp, even though it has no central nervous system, it is still considered the same being. It would want to reconnect to itself. But what if they are two separate beings with free will?
Doesn't Anybody Know How And Why?!
I found a bee trapped in side and then I let it crawl on my hand and I put it out the window and it then flew away. And then it came back and crawled on me and then flew outside and If I did not know any better, I would interpret it as the bee thanking me for saving its life, or perhaps the bee was trying to figure out why some thing (me) much bigger than it, saved its life. 
which attracts bees.
