Ever heard the saying 'running like a headless chicken'? Well, if you've ever wondered what that would actually look like, then wonder no longer.
This chicken hit headlines after it was reported to be alive and kicking despite having no head for an entire week in Thailand.
The chicken has since been adopted by kind-hearted monks from the Ratchaburi Province, Central Thailand.
A vet named as Supakadee Arun Thong was the first one reported to have cared for the chicken, feeding it by dropping food down its neck and giving it antibiotics.
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And, other than the obvious problem of a missing head, it appears to be in fine form, with the vet saying: "The animal has its life. If it wants to live, we feed it."
This little chap isn't the first chicken to manage to go on without a head - Miracle Mike survived for 18 months back in the 1940s. He survived a beheading with a hatchet and went on to become a bit of a star in the US, even making his way into TIME magazine.
Very occasionally, chickens survive being beheaded because of an unusual quirk of their anatomy. The birds' brains are in their skulls at an angle, so the rear portion that controls automatic functions such as breathing can be left intact if the chicken is beheaded too high up the neck.
Dr Tom Smulders, who has the wonderful title of 'chicken expert' at the Centre for Behaviour and Evolution at Newcastle University told the BBC he was more surprised that Mike hadn't bled to death than that fact that he managed to live without his head.
He said: "You'd be amazed how little brain there is in the front of the head of a chicken."
Explaining that around 80 percent of Mike's brain - the part that controls most of his body - would have been left untouched by the hatchet meaning that he was able to go on living.
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How amazing is that?
Featured Image Credit: Asia WireTopics: Viral, World News, Thailand, Weird