Jennie Durant, who’s recently arrived in the Philippines on a Fullbright, pens an ode to chickens. She recommends a documentary called The Natural History of Chickens.

Apparently, a man cut his chicken’s head off and it ran around for awhile—but didn’t stop. Shocked by this Lazarus of a chicken, he decided to see if it would continue to live. He fed the little chicken with an eye dropper, and apparently the wound healed over and the chicken lived for some time (almost two years, I think?) touring around the country as a famous, living, headless chicken. I know the story sounds preposterous, but it’s in the documentary. Refute it if you will.