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If YouTube is anything to go by, chicken hypnosis is quite a popular pastime. It involves holding a bird on its belly and slowly drawing a line with a pen or finger from the tip of its beak into the distance.<\/p>\n
The result is a floppy, prostrate animal apparently oblivious to the world around it. Hypnotism is probably the wrong word, though. The trick is thought to be a gentle way of inducing \u2018tonic immobility\u2019, a state of temporary paralysis that enables an animal to feign death when cornered by a predator.<\/p>\n
Similar methods work on other species, too. Rabbits and sharks, for example, can be immobilised by turning them on their backs and stroking their muzzles \u2013 a technique that is employed by vets and marine biologists.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section><\/body><\/html>\n By Stuart Blackman Published: Friday, 23 September 2022 at 12:00 am If YouTube is anything to go by, chicken hypnosis is quite a popular pastime. It involves holding a bird on its belly and slowly drawing a line with a pen or finger from the tip of its beak into the distance. The result is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":20853,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"< 1"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/can-you-hypnotise-a-chicken.jpg",623,455,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/can-you-hypnotise-a-chicken-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/can-you-hypnotise-a-chicken-300x219.jpg",300,219,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/can-you-hypnotise-a-chicken.jpg",623,455,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/can-you-hypnotise-a-chicken.jpg",623,455,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/can-you-hypnotise-a-chicken.jpg",623,455,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2022\/09\/can-you-hypnotise-a-chicken.jpg",623,455,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Stuart Blackman Published: Friday, 23 September 2022 at 12:00 am If YouTube is anything to go by, chicken hypnosis is quite a popular pastime. It involves holding a bird on its belly and slowly drawing a line with a pen or finger from the tip of its beak into the distance. The result is…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/20852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More wildlife questions answered<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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