why do chickens get hypnotized by drawing a straight line?
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So, you saw that Tik Tok too? Haja
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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.
Something to do with their eyes being on the sides of their heads?
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.
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