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Headless Zombie Fish Flips its Body Around (Video)

Sunday, February 17, 2013 10:43

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Imagine you are in a grocery store to pick up some fresh fish and as you start looking over the selection of decapitated dead fish. All of a sudden, one of them starts to shake and flip about in the case it is resting in. The question is would you still have an appetite after seeing it, or would you run over to the hunting department preparing for the coming “Zombie Apocalypse?”

Well in the video we see just this scene, a headless fish throbbing and moving about. So are zombie fish going to be taking over our planet? The answer is no, we don’t need to worry about it, well at least for now. As weird as this is, there is actually an explaining for this.

According to medical-dictionary.com, “Cadaveric spasm forms only under conditions of extreme mental stress and indicates the victim’s last thoughts and actions.”

I would think a fish being in a tank stuffed with so much fish that they can’t move, and then grabbed out, laid on a table and then…’CHOP’…would be qualified to be “extreme mental stress.”

To go in to further details, Marshall Brain, founder of HowStuffWorks said this about this unusual reaction:

“The reason why dead fish fillets can flop back and forth like they would in a swimming fish, is because the nerves that control and coordiante locomotion are distributed down in the spinal column and the muscles themselves. This is why you can walk, chew gum and carry on a conversation all at the same time. Your brain really doesn’t have to do much while you are walking and chewing.”

Also according to huffingtonpost, if you add salt to meat that is freshly killed, you can also stimualte this effect.

So in the end, it is a fairly “normal” reaction though quite uncommon, there is nothing to worry about….well, as long as these dead fish don’t try to attack you.

I did one time try to kill a cockroach with a friend (normally I don’t like to kill things but some bugs are exceptions) and somehow we managed to only step on and take off its head. Before long, the bug started to move and tried to climb up a wall and even tried to eat food. At this point we were too freaked and grossed out to even take a picture, so we ended its short little life.

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