The great majority of perinatal toxicological studies seem to be intended to convey medico-legal protection to the pharmaceutical houses and political protection to the official regulatory bodies, rather than produce information that might be of value in human therapeutics. Prof Hawkins, Drugs and Pregnancy: Human Teratogenesis and Related Problems, p 41-49 (publ. Churchill Livingstone).
This experiment from the 1970's (I think) demonstrate that motor pattern continuation is independent from the motor cortex. Motor patterns are kept via local circuitry in the form of reflex arcs in the spinal cord. Motor cortex input is only required to modify the pattern, not to maintain it.
While I do agree that modern technology is able to reduce the vast majority of practical tests on animals, past finds have been an essential element towards our current medical knowledge.
I'm sympathetic to animals (vegetarian) but to get angry at this old, relative-at-the-time, comparatively merciful experiment is to have your priorities very warped and out of touch.
The fact that this is a Cat and not say, a Frog; is probably also a huge factor in the passion of biased irritable youtubers.
I would remove the "no brain" part from the title as it is not correct and might confuse people that don't study medicine. Is this intercolicular derebration? or did they destroy the red nucleus?
@Dexterprog Thanks - correction noted. My apologies if anyone was mislead by the original title My background is in engineering not biology, and unfortunately I have minimal information pertaining to the details of the experiment. I found the video quite interesting, so I thought I'd share it here. The title/description was just an attempt to best relay the information I had been given.
@Dexterprog If this is the experiment that I think it is, the midbrain of the cat was sectioned off, so that the brain couldn't send any information to the spinal cord, which was still intact. At the beginning of the experiment the cat just dangled cuz the spinal cord didn't know what to do but then it eventually recognized the pattern and integrated the information so that the cat could walk despite the fact that it received any message from the brain to do so.
This is absolutely terrifying to me for some reason. That cat looks like something out of a zombie movie. Though I am extremely against animal cruelty, I am not offended by this.
Those who are close minded are quick to judge that this is "cruelty". It isn't; this is definitely for science. How in the world is this cruel? As far as I am concerned, this cat obviously wasn't harmed, wasn't emaciated, wasn't abused. They most likely humanely euthanized it.
Lots of advances in medical science were muh crueler than this. Next time you end up in surgery or something, tell your doctors you dont want them to perform the operation - since it was enabled by cruelty. You dont want to profit from that now, do you?
Lots of advances in medial science have been a lot crueler than this. Next time you need surgery tell your doctor you refuse. You dont want to benefit from the cruelty of the past, would you?
ok, if you think this is cruel stop eating animals.... especially young ones... and buying anything that cause animal suffering ... if you like to eat it stop saying stupid things about experiments that helped us discover so many things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So scientists discover what rednecks who have decapitated a chicken have always known? Well, I reckon there are some things a nice stretch in the Appalachian can teach faster than that fancy big city book larnin'
Decerebration is the elimination of cerebral brain function in an animal by removing the cerebrum, cutting across the brain stem, or severing certain arteries in the brain stem.
I can't help but notice the cat is suspended from flesh-hooks though. So it's still not capable of the adaptive process off maintaining balance? Nor fine coordination of the limbs. It looks like the front and back pairs are working independently, only running together because the reference frame is moving.
What if front or rear legs were suspended off the treadmill, while the other pair remained on it?
spoiler alert fuckbrains, just because the title says he has no brain doesnt make it so. fact is, cats need brains to walk. the only missing brain here is yours
Cats do not need brains to live at all. Grow up. Brains are used for memory/learning and for higher thinking. The brain stem/spinal cord does all instinctual acts regarding survival.
@ofnumbers Absolutely. Here is a quote from Gandhi. ' I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.'
@Laoch111 Here's are some more quotes from Gandhi: "A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir"
"...the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race."
"...must withdraw the Kaffirs. About this mixing of Kaffirs with the Indians, I feel most strongly"
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The evil scientist that did this should be slowly beaten to death. There is no justification for doing this to that poor cat! Humans are more barbaric that animals could ever be.
Is that a Palistenean cat? ISREAL SAVAGES CATS BRAINS THEN LIES ABOUT IT TO UN, CLAIMING VICTIM STATUS. PRETTY WEALTHY COUNTRY VICTIMS \ CAT MURDERERS TOOK BRAIN FROM CAT. NOT GOOD.
The brain doesn't have the nerves that make you feel pain, so basically, if they didn't open his head with out painkillers, it was a completly painless procedure
This video reminds me of that time I was frying so chicken in the kitchen. I left the room for a few minutes to tend to some other business and a cat jumped through the window and tried to eat the chicken which was frying in the pan. I came back to find a dead fried cat in my fryer. Anyway, moral of the story is the cat can't feel pain if it has no cerebral brain activity, aswell as that fried cats taste quite good with some mayonnaise and salad
@intindse Walking is largely a reflexive behaviour, only the decision to start walking comes from the brain. A human infant has the reflex at birth, but since they're unable to carry their own weight the ability fades. Stimuli such as pressure on the foot will cause a signal to be sent to the spinal cord, which then quickly returns and tells the leg to move in a certain way. That's why it can move without a brain.
This cat does NOT have no brain. Decerebrate means that the forebrain has been disconnected. The cat's brainstem is INTACT and powers basic functions such as walking. The cat has no advanced function.
Very sad for the cat. Shocking of course. But the result of this is knowing something startlingly new with the potential to really help humans, humans with disabilities, for example, and animals too. Suffering in the future of all kinds of things - far worse suffering (scientists don't *torture* animals to death) - can be prevented from experiments like this.
In contrast, killing a cow for your burger? Not so useful for humankind, or animal-kind.
@Peskymystic Being hypocritical is the accusation here. You are free to complain about anything if you're being hypocritical, or lying, or even if you are a mass murderer for that matter.
Not being hypocritical is the only reason I don't eat meat.
@ilikethecure Who said this animal was killed with bare hands? Who said animals at the grocery store aren't killed with bare hands? Many slaughter houses in this country don't follow humane practices. Spiked hammer method? Crammed living quarters? Cows being force fed corn when their bodies are meant to eat grass? To me, this is a much bigger problem than a cat being euthanized for a study. There is no evidence that this cat was abused in any way while being alive. Euthanizing is euthanizing.
Love the emotionally dishonest clinical language in the comment. I wonder if collateral damage from ordinance writhes in agony or is that just passive dynamic locomotion too?
And I love the idea that you can't be upset by this unless you are beyond any taint of hypocrisy. All I can say about that is try living a few more decades, find out what life is really like, before you're so quick to give up your right to react to horror.
@valleyshrew Ah, thank you! I've had Firefox correct tournament as tormentor before and that was quite unfortunate as you can imagine... Well thanks for the help!
@DrPersonman Yes. Usually Incendiary refers to a type of explosive device that uses napalm or something highly flammable, but in this sense it's used to convey being antagonistic, or being a troll. Essentially the metaphor is that the napalm rapidly spreads fire, and that the comment I was calling incendiary rapidly agitates people :)
I'd always theorized this! chickens and many other animals still have the ability to walk or run around after being entirely decapitated! but then general consensus has been that the brain controls everything, and the things you aren't intentionally controlling, are done subconsciously... I wonder how many other bodily functions do not require a brain at all.
@MakeEveryMomentCount People put too much emphasis on the brain; it's basically a swelling of nerves from the entire nervous system. Remove a cat's entire nervous system and see if it still runs :/
Headless chickens are different. Their brain-stem is still connected, as it is lower down in their neck. Thus it isn't proper decebratation. This is the common explanation for their life after decapitation.
@RabidZombie1 Ooh I wasn't aware of that! a lot of other animals like cats, dogs, pigs etc... make running motions after being decapitated or having their brains destroyed too though
Don't complain about this unless you don't eat any meat. I know I eat meat and I think it's delicious and I would be a liar if I'm not aware of the animal suffering.
But you people only complain if the bad stuff suddenly comes bursts your bubble of ignorance.
Also, this cat has no brain and thus no consciousness and thus CAN NOT SUFFER. His life is probably less miserable than yours, since you have a brain but don't know how to use it.
tl;dr "My world is perfect, I don't want to see this"
Well you are using the internet. Thousands of animals suffer due to the cables etc production of energy and all sorts such as their habitats being ruined.So animals have had their homes ruined and have been needlessly killed to provide you with an internet connection.
Its ok to not eat meat and feel all superior, but think about all of the indirect things that kill animals. People only really 'care' about animals as long as it doesnt make their lives too inconvenient.
@Th3Arch1t3ct Oh fuck off. People also have their lives adversely affected by industry, advancing technology, etc... People living under power lines grow malignant tumors. People living in a zone city planners would rather see as a parking lot or a strip mall get displaced and are forced out all the time. None of that is relevant here. The moral of the story is, it is cruel and completely unnecessary to remove the brain of a cat, or any creature, to see if it can still walk. That's not science.
@scumbagburrito NOT SCIENCE? Understanding the behavior of non synaptic nervous systems isn't science?! Do YOU not have a brain? This is VITAL research in neuroscience...
Yes it is. It's an insight into how the body works. Does motor function completely rely on the motor cortex in the brain? or is it something autonomous, not reliant on cortex/cerebellum function. Do you know the answer to that question? I bet you didn't, but you do now.
What's really cruel are the people who refuse to spay and neuter their pets. I volunteer at an animal shelter every weeks and too many cats are put down. At least this one was helpul.
@blackmanfu " "that's not science." Yes it is. It's an insight into how the body works. "
Thanks for making that remark that I didn't have to. Short, sweet, and well put.
There are bigger problems in the world; a single cat going through a [most likely] painless procedure so that it's body could be used in an experiment which has increased our understanding of a field which will eventually create better assisted/robotic walking technologies, really isn't worth anyones emotional distress.
@MAndrewSprong and yet you're telling him what not to tell other people what to say or feel. Yes, you've found yourself in a conundrum. The only solution? Remove your brain and run on a treadmill, works every time.
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@jorgis123 Your comment makes you look like a moron. I think you might have had a point in that verbal diarrhea but it is completely obfuscated by your idiocy.
That said, I thank you for the part where you suggest that removing an animal's brain prevents suffering. Clearly you are an authority of living without brain use.
@lucasw122333 Decerebrate means a disconnection between the greater part of the brain (towards the front, inc. frontal, parietal, temporal, occupital lobes and limbic system) and the hindbrain. Hence this cat does not have "no brain", but rather only its hindbrain, and therefore no higher cognitive functions - only the most prominent vestiges of evolution. Fear and pain are primal. You do the math.
@jorgis123 You're wrong and spouting faulty ad hominem logic all over the place. If you fail to see it just by having it mentioned to you and need it pointed out please just ask.
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Common people. Its fake! For starters the balance organ is in the inner ear, sending signals to the brain. It definitely would not work, you know, without a brain!
@drunkpandaman Those strings are slack. A cat asleep with those trings attached would simply lay down on the tracks, and a dead stiff cat would simply tip over to one side.
@WhatWouldBukowskiDo then how do headless chickens run around? this method would not work for humans that implement inner-ear balancing, but humans arent quadrupeds...
@67576856666478964567 Better understanding of the anatomy which may contribute to the medical community and treatments for people/animals as out technology improves.
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now let's get the grand children of those scientists and prove the point of this experiment on them, no problem, they are sub human, as proven by the 3rd reich!
I've just been reading about this. This was part of a series of studies that basically concluded that the entire memory log in the brain isn't located in any specific area. The fraction is also the whole.
Holy crap. Zombie cat by Frankenstein.
Icewind007 9 months ago
what an evil experiment with outstanding results
158130682 11 months ago
Alright. That... was one of the most fucked up things I've ever seen.
TheRastaguy 1 year ago
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The great majority of perinatal toxicological studies seem to be intended to convey medico-legal protection to the pharmaceutical houses and political protection to the official regulatory bodies, rather than produce information that might be of value in human therapeutics. Prof Hawkins, Drugs and Pregnancy: Human Teratogenesis and Related Problems, p 41-49 (publ. Churchill Livingstone).
noratmedicine 1 year ago
This experiment from the 1970's (I think) demonstrate that motor pattern continuation is independent from the motor cortex. Motor patterns are kept via local circuitry in the form of reflex arcs in the spinal cord. Motor cortex input is only required to modify the pattern, not to maintain it.
hood2460 1 year ago
Oh gosh, they removed part of it's brain?! Poor kitty! That's not fair!
TransientSylph 1 year ago
While I do agree that modern technology is able to reduce the vast majority of practical tests on animals, past finds have been an essential element towards our current medical knowledge.
I'm sympathetic to animals (vegetarian) but to get angry at this old, relative-at-the-time, comparatively merciful experiment is to have your priorities very warped and out of touch.
The fact that this is a Cat and not say, a Frog; is probably also a huge factor in the passion of biased irritable youtubers.
MakeEveryMomentCount 1 year ago 10
This is horrible. Poor cat.
joannem1000 1 year ago
fuck you, scientists. Next time use a human instead of a helpless animal.
gr8Sweetfox 1 year ago
@gr8Sweetfox I'm sure they do, but they won't let you see that.
kcadue 1 year ago
@kcadue why not :( I care more for cats.
gr8Sweetfox 1 year ago
@gr8Sweetfox I submit that gr8Sweetfox be decerebrated for the purposes of a scientific experiment.
aaaditit 1 year ago
@aaaditit oh sorry i didnt know you want to be decerebrated so much. Of course you can
gr8Sweetfox 1 year ago
@gr8Sweetfox This was ages ago. Scientists aren't evil conspiracy lunatics.
silviafarfallina 1 year ago
It's all fun and games until you're the one lobotomized on the treadmill....
undeadpresident 1 year ago 3
I would remove the "no brain" part from the title as it is not correct and might confuse people that don't study medicine. Is this intercolicular derebration? or did they destroy the red nucleus?
Dexterprog 1 year ago
@Dexterprog Thanks - correction noted. My apologies if anyone was mislead by the original title My background is in engineering not biology, and unfortunately I have minimal information pertaining to the details of the experiment. I found the video quite interesting, so I thought I'd share it here. The title/description was just an attempt to best relay the information I had been given.
0zxr 1 year ago 2
@0zxr: no problem. The video is indeed very interesting, thanks for sharing it
Dexterprog 1 year ago
@Dexterprog If this is the experiment that I think it is, the midbrain of the cat was sectioned off, so that the brain couldn't send any information to the spinal cord, which was still intact. At the beginning of the experiment the cat just dangled cuz the spinal cord didn't know what to do but then it eventually recognized the pattern and integrated the information so that the cat could walk despite the fact that it received any message from the brain to do so.
NaturalBrowniii 11 months ago
@Dexterprog i think it is high decerebration, which is done above the red nucleus, cause the cat can run pretty much ok...
lordoftheriffs79 8 months ago
warning, moralists incoming. thanks to you, guys and other thousands in 14-th century we are where we are. because these things also were "wrong".
SPGM1903 1 year ago
fuckers, wish someone did to them too
bociannielot 1 year ago
This is wrong on so many levels...
kyle88l 1 year ago
This is absolutely terrifying to me for some reason. That cat looks like something out of a zombie movie. Though I am extremely against animal cruelty, I am not offended by this.
Those who are close minded are quick to judge that this is "cruelty". It isn't; this is definitely for science. How in the world is this cruel? As far as I am concerned, this cat obviously wasn't harmed, wasn't emaciated, wasn't abused. They most likely humanely euthanized it.
JapanimeFangirl 1 year ago 2
@JapanimeFangirl
umm apparntly it had its mind removed and was hung from hooks stuck in its back.... i think that does qualify as cruetly...
Catlover123445 1 year ago
@Catlover123445 yeah, but this cat cannot feel any pain, since it has no brain.
elbanan 1 year ago
@Catlover123445
Lots of advances in medical science were muh crueler than this. Next time you end up in surgery or something, tell your doctors you dont want them to perform the operation - since it was enabled by cruelty. You dont want to profit from that now, do you?
Th3Arch1t3ct 1 year ago
@Th3Arch1t3ct
yeah... but what was the benefit from this experiment, i'm interested to know.
Catlover123445 1 year ago
@Catlover123445
Lots of advances in medial science have been a lot crueler than this. Next time you need surgery tell your doctor you refuse. You dont want to benefit from the cruelty of the past, would you?
Th3Arch1t3ct 1 year ago
ok, if you think this is cruel stop eating animals.... especially young ones... and buying anything that cause animal suffering ... if you like to eat it stop saying stupid things about experiments that helped us discover so many things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
poltergeistish 1 year ago
I wonder what the cat thinks about having its brain shut off? Oh wait...
ThaGoodestFella 1 year ago 2
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ThaGoodestFella 1 year ago
How funny.
aspexpl 1 year ago
So scientists discover what rednecks who have decapitated a chicken have always known? Well, I reckon there are some things a nice stretch in the Appalachian can teach faster than that fancy big city book larnin'
redmunkee 1 year ago
Omg the description is phenomenal, it made me jizz from just reading! and it was spoken in nerd speak! I am ashamed
mik3ync89 1 year ago
can i has brainz?
Pakiavelli 1 year ago
Is this how Sarah Palin is able to walk?
luckscut 1 year ago 85
@luckscut Thats, you made my day :)
Afronerd 1 year ago
@luckscut
You win this youtube video. And there are ways to win while making comments on youtube.
robertsd247 1 year ago
@luckscut Is she a quadruped? Idiot.
alexjestermusic 1 year ago
@luckscut I laughed out loud.
SwissSteph 1 year ago
more proof the elite will gain control using a zombie cat army
InnerSmile72 1 year ago 2
this is pure crap 454
ottomaloid 1 year ago
Decerebration is the elimination of cerebral brain function in an animal by removing the cerebrum, cutting across the brain stem, or severing certain arteries in the brain stem.
marianneistocool 1 year ago 3
I can't help but notice the cat is suspended from flesh-hooks though. So it's still not capable of the adaptive process off maintaining balance? Nor fine coordination of the limbs. It looks like the front and back pairs are working independently, only running together because the reference frame is moving.
What if front or rear legs were suspended off the treadmill, while the other pair remained on it?
SciStarborne 1 year ago
@SciStarborne it has no balance, look at the tail, it's limp
SugarCoatedLies 1 year ago
its not sexist if its true...how much brain does it take to make toast and spread your legs?
HowDaWorldTwerks 1 year ago
I can haz spinal chord?
cocoabean 1 year ago
I'd say this could be the best cat video on Youtube.
BlockJuice 1 year ago
spoiler alert fuckbrains, just because the title says he has no brain doesnt make it so. fact is, cats need brains to walk. the only missing brain here is yours
ryanlaing 1 year ago
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@ryanlaing
Cats do not need brains to live at all. Grow up. Brains are used for memory/learning and for higher thinking. The brain stem/spinal cord does all instinctual acts regarding survival.
Cyclopsided 1 year ago
@Cyclopsided Yeah they probably just removed the top few layers of the brain brain.
livingkoan242 1 year ago
frightening and fascinating...
CombKnife911 1 year ago
This is actually quite interesting!
Saddler1234 1 year ago
@Saddler1234 I agree, Sadler! I agree!
JRCrowley 1 year ago
The word is actually decerebrate
Sonavabish 1 year ago 6
@ jorgis123 You can both eat meat and think this is unethical. Not every everyone's line of morality is in the same place as your's.
Radman4000 1 year ago 3
Wow - this video has got to be over a half century old too...
Where are they now?
Oh, that's right, Lady Gaga.
cp101 1 year ago
If you guys think this is disturbing you guys need to see some faces of death videos.
djsdojo 1 year ago
@djsdojo
Yes, those videos are disturbingly fake...
gisbrei 1 year ago
Fuck Vivisection!
ofnumbers 1 year ago 2
@ofnumbers Absolutely. Here is a quote from Gandhi. ' I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.'
Laoch111 1 year ago
@Laoch111 Here's are some more quotes from Gandhi: "A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir"
"...the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race."
"...must withdraw the Kaffirs. About this mixing of Kaffirs with the Indians, I feel most strongly"
ashgromnies 1 year ago
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The evil scientist that did this should be slowly beaten to death. There is no justification for doing this to that poor cat! Humans are more barbaric that animals could ever be.
Laoch111 1 year ago
@Laoch111 WRONG! how can you call this marvel of science "barbaric"? It may be immoral, but certainly not barbaric.
MagikGir 1 year ago
@MagikGir A marvel of science? The Computer is a marvel of science. This is just despicable.
Laoch111 1 year ago
@Laoch111 Let me guess..you're probably christian.
AntiChristws 1 year ago
@AntiChristws You guessed wrong. I am against animal cruelty.
Laoch111 1 year ago
@Laoch111 i hope your mother dies of cancer slowly over the course of 15 years
kornnation1 1 year ago
@kornnation1 Drop dead you maggot.
Laoch111 1 year ago
you can't have any pudding until you eat your meat!
sayitbackwards 1 year ago
@sayitbackwards "We don't need no education..."
mnmsicedtack 1 year ago
lol zombie cat
EnveeH2 1 year ago 2
This is without a doubt the most disturbing thing I have ever seen in the entire summation of my days.
mesmeriffic 1 year ago
@mesmeriffic sooo the holocaust is maybe 15th? around with the Great Purge? cause i KNOW those Foie gras farms are just HORRIFIC in comparison
tubatweak 1 year ago
@tubatweak
You think the Holocaust is more disturbing than the undead?
You will fall quickly when the zompocalypse comes.
mesmeriffic 1 year ago
Is that a Palistenean cat? ISREAL SAVAGES CATS BRAINS THEN LIES ABOUT IT TO UN, CLAIMING VICTIM STATUS. PRETTY WEALTHY COUNTRY VICTIMS \ CAT MURDERERS TOOK BRAIN FROM CAT. NOT GOOD.
Joeey 1 year ago
@Joeey I lol'd. I don't know if that makes me soul-less, but fuck it, that was hilarious.
slayerofpigs 1 year ago
Fascinating, horrifying, necessary for a greater understanding of our own nature.
rhiesa 1 year ago
i wish i wasn't human
defjam126 1 year ago
The brain doesn't have the nerves that make you feel pain, so basically, if they didn't open his head with out painkillers, it was a completly painless procedure
Jhzx136 1 year ago
This video reminds me of that time I was frying so chicken in the kitchen. I left the room for a few minutes to tend to some other business and a cat jumped through the window and tried to eat the chicken which was frying in the pan. I came back to find a dead fried cat in my fryer. Anyway, moral of the story is the cat can't feel pain if it has no cerebral brain activity, aswell as that fried cats taste quite good with some mayonnaise and salad
WhitesKh 1 year ago 6
@WhitesKh you made that up XD
Lunarbs 1 year ago
What scientist/Institute did this? Film quality and general craziness lead me to believe it's Sergei Brukhonenko, but that is just a guess.
faevrin 1 year ago
how the fuck can it move if it doesn't have a brain? O.O
intindse 1 year ago
@intindse Walking is largely a reflexive behaviour, only the decision to start walking comes from the brain. A human infant has the reflex at birth, but since they're unable to carry their own weight the ability fades. Stimuli such as pressure on the foot will cause a signal to be sent to the spinal cord, which then quickly returns and tells the leg to move in a certain way. That's why it can move without a brain.
rhiesa 1 year ago
ahahahaha comments flamewar is fucking hilarious, walls of text by retards arguing with each other
raviool 1 year ago 3
This cat does NOT have no brain. Decerebrate means that the forebrain has been disconnected. The cat's brainstem is INTACT and powers basic functions such as walking. The cat has no advanced function.
hettbeans 1 year ago 2
zombies, on tape
GnariusFestivus 1 year ago 2
hence the term, instinct
GnariusFestivus 1 year ago
Very sad for the cat. Shocking of course. But the result of this is knowing something startlingly new with the potential to really help humans, humans with disabilities, for example, and animals too. Suffering in the future of all kinds of things - far worse suffering (scientists don't *torture* animals to death) - can be prevented from experiments like this.
In contrast, killing a cow for your burger? Not so useful for humankind, or animal-kind.
thecaveofthedead 1 year ago 3
no brain, and yet, it runs.
marvingardens2 1 year ago
cool, a TEA PARTY cat! but i think a decebrated sheep would been better.
neocon70 1 year ago
Zombiecat: I can has bbrrraaaiinnnnssss????
BlueChipNinja 1 year ago 3
NO BRAIN!??!?!?!?
25pugwash 1 year ago
what the fuck
onlyontuesdays99 1 year ago
Plant = Cat.
killgroup 1 year ago
@Peskymystic Being hypocritical is the accusation here. You are free to complain about anything if you're being hypocritical, or lying, or even if you are a mass murderer for that matter.
Not being hypocritical is the only reason I don't eat meat.
gorkheim 1 year ago
@ilikethecure Who said this animal was killed with bare hands? Who said animals at the grocery store aren't killed with bare hands? Many slaughter houses in this country don't follow humane practices. Spiked hammer method? Crammed living quarters? Cows being force fed corn when their bodies are meant to eat grass? To me, this is a much bigger problem than a cat being euthanized for a study. There is no evidence that this cat was abused in any way while being alive. Euthanizing is euthanizing.
meesho182 1 year ago
Where are the brainless clone super soldiers?
OutlawThunder 1 year ago
@OutlawThunder Everywhere. Where have you been?
zepcow 1 year ago 2
@ilikethecure Your tl;dr was longer than your tl...
lee1O6O 1 year ago
killing an animal for meat is slightly different than lobotomising one for an experiment
rebelbiscuit 1 year ago
@ilikethecure
The point of "tl;dr" is to provide a summary, not rant longer than the text you're supposed to be "tl;dr"ing.
FIXEDbyFIXER 1 year ago
Meat tastes better when the animal suffers...
charlie861i 1 year ago
I'm listening to dubstep while watching this. I swear I thought this was just a music video o.O
piecesOfFuzz 1 year ago
Man, zombie theorists are going to have a field day with this.
funx24X7 1 year ago 5
Love the emotionally dishonest clinical language in the comment. I wonder if collateral damage from ordinance writhes in agony or is that just passive dynamic locomotion too?
And I love the idea that you can't be upset by this unless you are beyond any taint of hypocrisy. All I can say about that is try living a few more decades, find out what life is really like, before you're so quick to give up your right to react to horror.
Now let's try with Tony Hayward.
konchog3 1 year ago
@konchog3 Description is of a scientific experiment- not the place for emotional language.
To all of you looking for an outlet to vent feelings about amimal cruelty, check out bear bile harvesting.
Tony Hayward- now theres an idea :p
0zxr 1 year ago
They could have used LAWYERS for this, instead of little moggies...
FeldwebelWolfenstool 1 year ago 7
@FeldwebelWolfenstool Up vote 1x10^6
il128 1 year ago
wat
frankensteinhernbat 1 year ago
how exactly do you make a cat, or anything with a brain for that matter, decerebrate?
snookfook 1 year ago 4
@snookfook this question i have also about video thing device boobies
frankensteinhernbat 1 year ago
@snookfook Pith a frog with a dissection pin. A cat would require a much more complicated surgery.
il128 1 year ago
@snookfook with a knife.
viridae 1 year ago
If real... this is surely proof that zombies could exist (at least cat ones)
ybcjeremy 1 year ago
Just like a woman in a mall
capitanqueso 1 year ago 269
@capitanqueso hahaha ,nice comment!
israelwasaness 1 year ago
@capitanqueso This is the best fucking thing I've ever read on Youtube.
saltystuff 1 year ago
@capitanqueso Pointless incendiary sexist comment... downvoted.
alextoob1 1 year ago
@alextoob1 Hilarious sexist comment.
sledzeppelin 1 year ago
@alextoob1 I have never seen the word incendiary used that way, is it another way of using the word? Or was a simply a typo?
DrPersonman 1 year ago
@DrPersonman It is commonly used in that context. I can't imagine what you thought the typo might have been...
valleyshrew 1 year ago
@valleyshrew Ah, thank you! I've had Firefox correct tournament as tormentor before and that was quite unfortunate as you can imagine... Well thanks for the help!
DrPersonman 1 year ago
@DrPersonman Yes. Usually Incendiary refers to a type of explosive device that uses napalm or something highly flammable, but in this sense it's used to convey being antagonistic, or being a troll. Essentially the metaphor is that the napalm rapidly spreads fire, and that the comment I was calling incendiary rapidly agitates people :)
alextoob1 1 year ago
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@capitanqueso you're a tremendous faggot
chuppapadre 1 year ago
@capitanqueso I loled
oakoivunen 1 year ago
I don't know whether to like or dislike this.
TheLalalydia 1 year ago
I'd always theorized this! chickens and many other animals still have the ability to walk or run around after being entirely decapitated! but then general consensus has been that the brain controls everything, and the things you aren't intentionally controlling, are done subconsciously... I wonder how many other bodily functions do not require a brain at all.
MakeEveryMomentCount 1 year ago
@MakeEveryMomentCount People put too much emphasis on the brain; it's basically a swelling of nerves from the entire nervous system. Remove a cat's entire nervous system and see if it still runs :/
Omniarch 1 year ago
@MakeEveryMomentCount
Headless chickens are different. Their brain-stem is still connected, as it is lower down in their neck. Thus it isn't proper decebratation. This is the common explanation for their life after decapitation.
RabidZombie1 1 year ago
@RabidZombie1 Ooh I wasn't aware of that! a lot of other animals like cats, dogs, pigs etc... make running motions after being decapitated or having their brains destroyed too though
MakeEveryMomentCount 1 year ago
ive seen a video of a live pig getting it's head chainsawed off and its legs started goin crazy like it was running. only it was laying on it's side
dogtired75 1 year ago
@dogtired75 That's great I didn't need to sleep tonight
kamaelizabeth 1 year ago
Don't complain about this unless you don't eat any meat. I know I eat meat and I think it's delicious and I would be a liar if I'm not aware of the animal suffering.
But you people only complain if the bad stuff suddenly comes bursts your bubble of ignorance.
Also, this cat has no brain and thus no consciousness and thus CAN NOT SUFFER. His life is probably less miserable than yours, since you have a brain but don't know how to use it.
tl;dr "My world is perfect, I don't want to see this"
jorgis123 1 year ago 236
@jorgis123 best comment evar
bustashite 1 year ago 3
@jorgis123
I don't eat meat, I can complain right?
Z2theONA 1 year ago
@Z2theONA
Well you are using the internet. Thousands of animals suffer due to the cables etc production of energy and all sorts such as their habitats being ruined.So animals have had their homes ruined and have been needlessly killed to provide you with an internet connection.
Its ok to not eat meat and feel all superior, but think about all of the indirect things that kill animals. People only really 'care' about animals as long as it doesnt make their lives too inconvenient.
Th3Arch1t3ct 1 year ago
@Th3Arch1t3ct
I don't think I'm superior because I don't eat meat, and trust me not eating meat, especially in the south is a huge inconvenience.
Z2theONA 1 year ago
@Th3Arch1t3ct Oh fuck off. People also have their lives adversely affected by industry, advancing technology, etc... People living under power lines grow malignant tumors. People living in a zone city planners would rather see as a parking lot or a strip mall get displaced and are forced out all the time. None of that is relevant here. The moral of the story is, it is cruel and completely unnecessary to remove the brain of a cat, or any creature, to see if it can still walk. That's not science.
scumbagburrito 1 year ago
@scumbagburrito NOT SCIENCE? Understanding the behavior of non synaptic nervous systems isn't science?! Do YOU not have a brain? This is VITAL research in neuroscience...
spleenblender 1 year ago 4
@scumbagburrito "that's not science."
Yes it is. It's an insight into how the body works. Does motor function completely rely on the motor cortex in the brain? or is it something autonomous, not reliant on cortex/cerebellum function. Do you know the answer to that question? I bet you didn't, but you do now.
What's really cruel are the people who refuse to spay and neuter their pets. I volunteer at an animal shelter every weeks and too many cats are put down. At least this one was helpul.
blackmanfu 1 year ago 28
@blackmanfu " "that's not science." Yes it is. It's an insight into how the body works. "
Thanks for making that remark that I didn't have to. Short, sweet, and well put.
There are bigger problems in the world; a single cat going through a [most likely] painless procedure so that it's body could be used in an experiment which has increased our understanding of a field which will eventually create better assisted/robotic walking technologies, really isn't worth anyones emotional distress.
0zxr 1 year ago
@jorgis123 lol
isthisnamestillfree 1 year ago
@jorgis123 Don't tell other people what to say or feel unless you want to sound like an overbearing, self-righteous prig.
MAndrewSprong 1 year ago
@MAndrewSprong and yet you're telling him what not to tell other people what to say or feel. Yes, you've found yourself in a conundrum. The only solution? Remove your brain and run on a treadmill, works every time.
kernel89 1 year ago
@MAndrewSprong
You know it's true
nordahl154 1 year ago
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@jorgis123 Your comment makes you look like a moron. I think you might have had a point in that verbal diarrhea but it is completely obfuscated by your idiocy.
That said, I thank you for the part where you suggest that removing an animal's brain prevents suffering. Clearly you are an authority of living without brain use.
iloveravi 1 year ago
@iloveravi How could you feel any emotion or feeling without a brain? What makes you think so strongly that he is wrong and you are right?
lucasw122333 1 year ago 3
@lucasw122333 Decerebrate means a disconnection between the greater part of the brain (towards the front, inc. frontal, parietal, temporal, occupital lobes and limbic system) and the hindbrain. Hence this cat does not have "no brain", but rather only its hindbrain, and therefore no higher cognitive functions - only the most prominent vestiges of evolution. Fear and pain are primal. You do the math.
iloveravi 1 year ago
@iloveravi Exactly the clarification I wanted to make. Ever seen a bug suffer? Tell me what brain they need to feel agony.
alextoob1 1 year ago
@jorgis123 I never eat any cat. Never any tender, delicious cat.
zavatone 1 year ago
@jorgis123 They should try it on you! lol, that would be pretty cool eh?
spydereleven 1 year ago
@jorgis123 how did you get so smart?
TemporaryGuest 1 year ago
@jorgis123 You're wrong and spouting faulty ad hominem logic all over the place. If you fail to see it just by having it mentioned to you and need it pointed out please just ask.
Bukkake 1 year ago
@jorgis123 people are complaining mainly because of the toxoplasmosis that tells us no harm should come to cats...
gadimus 1 year ago 4
fucking mind blown.
dogtired75 1 year ago 2
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Common people. Its fake! For starters the balance organ is in the inner ear, sending signals to the brain. It definitely would not work, you know, without a brain!
WhatWouldBukowskiDo 1 year ago
@WhatWouldBukowskiDo uh.. isn't that what the strings are for sir?
drunkpandaman 1 year ago
@drunkpandaman Those strings are slack. A cat asleep with those trings attached would simply lay down on the tracks, and a dead stiff cat would simply tip over to one side.
WhatWouldBukowskiDo 1 year ago
@WhatWouldBukowskiDo then how do headless chickens run around? this method would not work for humans that implement inner-ear balancing, but humans arent quadrupeds...
MakeEveryMomentCount 1 year ago
Has anything positive came about because of this research?
67576856666478964567 1 year ago
@67576856666478964567 Better understanding of the anatomy which may contribute to the medical community and treatments for people/animals as out technology improves.
MakeEveryMomentCount 1 year ago
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now let's get the grand children of those scientists and prove the point of this experiment on them, no problem, they are sub human, as proven by the 3rd reich!
soparamens 1 year ago
how do we know its been decebrated? (or whatever the word is) im not saying this is fake, I'm just asking how do we know that its real?
Subiv001 1 year ago
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@Subiv001 We know its real because of documentation:
preview.tinyurl . c om/decerebrate-cat . Interesting video but downvote for not taking the time to spell decerebrate correctly.
DarkLordPuddles 1 year ago 3
I've often thought that rather than walking I tell my legs to go and leave it at that
LostMente 1 year ago
I've just been reading about this. This was part of a series of studies that basically concluded that the entire memory log in the brain isn't located in any specific area. The fraction is also the whole.
BJMR 1 year ago 3