Yeah, they're so 'intelligent' that you can chop the head off one and the body might keep strutting around the barnyard until it starves to death. Seems to me that I read something some years back, where a botched hatchet job on a farm left a chicken headless, but it was still alive from the neck-down. They fed and watered it through the stump of its neck, and it wandered around for months after that until it dropped dead of natural causes. (Whatever 'natural causes' might be that contribute to chicken mortality. An ax comes to mind.).
Sounds like your typical Dem voter. Brainless, but motile.
Thats Mike the Headless Chicken. There is a big statue of him in Fruita , Colorado. Seems he was being prepared for Sunday dinner back around 1945 and the axe did not take enough of his brain stem. He got up and ran around the farm. Being Capitalists, his owner turned him into a County and State fair spectacle, making some big 1940’s money. As he was fed by dropping a grain of corn down his gullet he choked on one and Mike was no more. Real interesting. Look him up!