We know perfectly well that a chicken, for example, can run without a head. A very famous story about a rooster who lived for 18 months without a head. But such a story has long been wandering about a person on the Internet:
In 1336, King Ludwig of Bavaria sentenced to death the nobleman Diez von SchauMburg (in other sources his name is recorded as Diez von Swinburg) and four of his associates for the fact that they rebelled against his majesty and thereby “disturbed the peace of the country . The troublemakers were to have their heads cut off. Before his execution, according to tradition, Ludwig of Bavaria asked Diez von Schaunburg what his last wish would be. Diez asked the king to pardon his sentenced friends in case he, beheaded, managed to run past them.
This is what happened next …
At the same time, von Schaunburg clarified that the sentenced should stand in a row at a distance of eight steps from each other. Only those are subject to pardon, past whom he, having lost his head, can run. The monarch burst out laughing after hearing this nonsense, and promised to fulfill the wish of the doomed. Dietz placed his friends hardly, carefully measuring out the agreed distance between them with steps and knelt in front of the block. The executioner's sword whistled. Von Schaunburg's blond head rolled off his shoulders, and the body … jumped to its feet and in front of the maddened king and courtiers, sprinkling the earth with streams of blood gushing from the stump of the neck, rushed swiftly past the condemned. Having passed the last of them, that is, having taken more than 32 steps, it stopped and fell to the ground. The king kept his word and pardoned the rebels.
Here's a story. Some say that there is no documentary confirmation of this story … No one can say how true or fictional it is today.
Others say that there was such a story with the German pirate Störtebeker. He managed to save half of the crew of his ship, passing them without a head … It was in the 14th or 15th century in one of the cities of the Hanseatic League … Or, for example, this is what they write: “A friend of mine once told me a story about how they had a welding cylinder at the facility tore. The welder ran 150 meters without half of the skull. The doctors who arrived said that this could not be. It couldn't but it happened."
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And still others argue that if the head were cut off on the run, then a person can probably still run some distance by inertia, and that is hardly very significant.
The spinal cord appeared in evolution before the brain, and initially it was he who controlled the entire life of the organism, including movements. Subsequently, the motor centers that arose in the brain did not replace the spinal centers, but were "built up" above them. In birds and mammals, the spinal motor centers work under the complete control of the centers of the brain. However, if the brain is separated from the spinal cord, the spinal centers can work autonomously for some time. So, a dog with a disconnected or separated from the spinal cord is capable of scratching or bending and unbending all four legs when one of them is irritated. If such a dog is placed on a treadmill (secured in a harness so that it does not fall), it will perform coordinated walking movements. In birds, the potential for a "freed" spinal cord is even greater. In humans, the individual's own activity of the spinal motor centers can manifest itself in the first months of life (the walking reflex of newborns). With the development of the higher parts of the nervous system, the nuclei of the spinal cord are so subjugated to themselves that they lose the ability to work independently.
So what do you think there is some common grain in this incredible story?
And by the way, here's a video of how a chicken goes headless:
… well, okay, okay, don't swear:-)
Here is the real one: