Mixed chicks sing song of a different species [Frankenstein Chicken Alert!]

The Globe and Mail ^ | 12/30/01 | ANNE MCILROY

[doc30]

This is just too weird for words

[doc30]

This is a really strange article.

[saveliberty]

LOL! All I can think of are the Dixie Chicks and their pinheaded comments in Europe. I think that they chose their name wisely. LOL!

[emiller]

This will come in handy someday.

Huh?

[TexasTransplant]

What is really weird is how he gets a 2 week old chick to do anything but peep.

[atomicpossum]

McGill University researcher Evan Balaban performs brain transplants on chickens to make them sing like quails.

You know, it's only being able to claim he's a 'researcher' that keeps this guy from being called 'a sick twerp.'

[PatrickHenry]

Yes, very odd. I'm pinging only "the few."

[null and void]

There is a job for every, uhhhh, skill...

[doc30]

Maybe we can give this guy an H1B visa with the promise of permanent residency if he can study how chicken cell embryos got into certain politicians' brains. Bonus bucks if he can reverse engineer it.

[doc30]

If you go to the link, there's a photo of the researcher. Reminds me of the mad scientist from the 'Back to the Future' movies.

[Ben Mugged]

Know what you get when you transplant Conservative brain tissue into a Liberal?




Trick question. They have yet to find a brain in a Liberal.

[martin_fierro]

No amateurs, please. Send FReepmail if you want on/off ISHP list
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Quick! Someone put in a call to Mr. Kentuckyfriedcrueltydotcom!

[saganite]

Maybe we could use scans before birth to determine who might be a Democrat, give them a transplant of the work ethic and individuality and make them Republicans.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

If she had a brain we could have chickens singing like Streisand.

[PatrickHenry]

If you go to the link, there's a photo of the researcher. Reminds me of the mad scientist from the 'Back to the Future' movies.

[PaulaB]

He is hoping to learn how the quail song circuit is connected to the rest of the brain

HEHEHE...me too

[Xenalyte]

[MineralMan]

Interesting information, I guess, if I ever need to use a chicken to call quail. In the meantime, I suppose I'll have to continue with my own valley quail call, using a leaf of grass between my thumbs.

Works a treat, too. I can locate a covey pretty quickly from a distance, then start the hunt. Learned to do it from my dad. I also do a mean crow call, just using my voice.

[doc30]

Thanks Xenalyte! Now I'm going to have that stupid theme song stuck in my head!

[Xenalyte]

Marty: Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?

Dr. Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?