why do chickens get hypnotized by drawing a straight line?
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You’re getting so many guesses but the short answer is we don’t know. It may just be a fluke, an accident of evolution and one that hasn’t been proven harmful enough to stop the trait from being passed on, so here it is.
Something to do with their eyes being on the sides of their heads?
I had this demonstrated to me in an Animal Science class in college. The explanation I was given was that due to the position of eyes on side of a chickens head they can’t see an area directly in front of them (about a ten degrees slice) when an insect or moving object moves into that blind spot the bird brain freezes them until it emerges on the other side of the blind spot. By drawing a line into the Blindspot and then tracing straight away from the chicken out of sight, the chicken just freezes waiting for the movement to continue out the other side of the blind spot. Take this for what it’s worth. I didn’t pursue animal science beyond this intro level course. It wasn’t presented to us a particularly useful knowledge more of a novelty.
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So, you saw that Tik Tok too? Haja
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Does it have to be a line or can I just draw a circle or a another shape?
I honestly don’t think anyone actually knows. It feels like someone stumbled upon a weird biological hack. There isn’t any reason that I’ve seen that makes any sense at all. I don’t even know what would be involved in doing a scientific study of this. Hypnotism is already extremely hard to study in humans because some of the effects make no sense based on our conventional understanding. Studying hypnotism in an animal that can’t be interviewed about what they felt would be so much harder.
The line does nothing it just adds up to dramatic effect. Chicken gets “hypnotized” due to being caught. Predators will not fight prey if they don’t run or attack so the chicken stays still and waits for a perfect moment to run away
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