[HN Gopher] Chicken hypnotism
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Chicken hypnotism
Author : jakogut
Score : 41 points
Date : 2023-11-30 18:53 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| jakogut wrote:
| Here's a video of this phenomenon for anybody who's interested.
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yo2UkL-n_Q
| swalling wrote:
| "The enormity of their stupidity is just overwhelming"
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| https://youtu.be/QhMo4WlBmGM?si=RLmmOCX43l0nOq_q
| tbyehl wrote:
| He's not wrong.
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| Source: Have around a dozen varieties of chicken.
| swalling wrote:
| Not wrong, but as a former backyard chicken owner myself,
| they can be surprisingly friendly. His fear of chickens is
| deeply funny in this context.
| atleastoptimal wrote:
| I wonder if superintelligent AI will discover a tactic that works
| the same way on humans.
| derac wrote:
| Short form content?
| atleastoptimal wrote:
| Probably rage-bait with subliminal erotic/violence-inducing
| undertones that succinctly imply some new outgroup/ingroup
| stage-shifting drama that sends every layer of the
| status/survival preserving brain into instinctive overdrive.
| Fox news/MSM has tried it but get stuck on too many single-
| order local maxima.
| xeckr wrote:
| Probably by placing a small glowing rectangle in their hand.
| whatever1 wrote:
| Placing in their pockets carefully selected amounts of green
| sheets of paper.
| mock-possum wrote:
| yes kids these days and their / _checks notes /_ smart phones
| Teever wrote:
| It's called marketing and learned helplessness. Some other
| keywords are doomscrolling and thirst traps.
| noindiecred wrote:
| RELEASE THE HYPNODRONES
| marcellus23 wrote:
| I was hoping there would be more details on why exactly this
| happens, but maybe this is one of those things where no one
| really knows?
| jakogut wrote:
| It seems to be a manifestation of tonic immobility [0]
| triggered as a defense mechanism in response to a perceived
| threat. As far as why drawing a line is perceived as a threat
| is anybody's guess. Maybe it's the chicken's simple brain using
| a flawed heuristic for recognizing snakes? It brings to mind
| cats freaking out about cucumbers. [1]
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| [0]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_death#Tonic_immobilit...
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| [1] https://youtu.be/RBrZsgy4-SQ?si=OXD65pDCd9hqaNuY
| luca3v wrote:
| The article ends with a reference to Trout Tickling,
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trout_tickling, that sounds like
| some kind of Urban Dictionary euphemism, but is instead exactly
| what it sounds like
| ggambetta wrote:
| You can turn off cats too [0], so it's not just about chickens
| not being that bright.
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| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9TmmF79Rw0
| AriedK wrote:
| Tonic immobility is a fascinating phenomenon. From the wikipedia
| article on it:
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| " In an interesting eye witness case off the coast of California,
| a female orca was seen holding the shark upside down to induce
| tonic immobility. It kept the shark still for fifteen minutes,
| causing it to suffocate to death."
| praptak wrote:
| Some orcas use this on white sharks to kill them with little
| energy expenditure. They induce tonic immobility by ramming the
| shark from the side.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_and_Starboard_(orcas)
| M_bara wrote:
| On another note, hooting continuously will make a chicken shake
| its head. Use a tone similar to an owl.. (hoooooooo). Doing that
| in a coop with hundreds... you'll have lots of chickens
| disagreeing with you. Wonder if it has to do with standing waves
| and chicken ears
| eichin wrote:
| Heh, I was wondering why this was on HN but then noticed the
| multidude of Werner Herzog references on the page (apparently he
| used this in several movies.) so that explains it.
| akomtu wrote:
| The chicken probably thinks, in its limited way, that the line is
| a snake and the learned behavior is to lay still, hoping the
| snake would crawl away. A cat would probably jump, if the line is
| drawn with a bit higher quality.
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| Another example is birds avoiding vertical stripes, because
| that's how cats and other predators typically look (two stripes
| on the forehead).
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| How would you personally act if you found yourself in a dimly lit
| room with something like a big snake on the wall? You'd stand
| still for a minute, as movement would attract the snake, and only
| after a "timeout" you'd assume the snake is fake.
| InfiniteRand wrote:
| Is this related in any way to the state of mind of a human under
| hypnosis? Is there any way we can check whether or not this is
| the case?
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