A news article said you can hypnotize chicken, turns out it's more like playing dead than being in hypnosis. I wonder... what other animals can play dead?
Find out some of them on today's episode of Facts-Chology!
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Sources
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/can-you-hypnotize-chicken-180949940/#:~:text=Here's%20how%20you%20do%20it,a%20finger%2C%20chalk%20or%20whatever.&text=To%20de%2Dhypnotize%20the%20chicken,tries%20to%20awaken%20the%20bird.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jsap.12549#jsap12549-bib-0041
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2424542?seq=1
https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/sci-tech/2017-11-22-smell-of-death-tested-as-shark-repellent/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/04/great-white-sharks-flee-killer-whales/587563/
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