Animals, and people, can and have continued to be alive and… somewhat, or even mostly functional… with portions of their brains obliterated or removed.
Go look up Phinneas Gage, or the history of lobotomies and brain surgeries.
Now, this person could be describing bloody chunks of the skull and skin and fur, but it is not strictly impossible that the deer could have actually managed to loose chunks of its actual brain, and still remain capable enough to keep functioning…
… for a while, at least. If it did really cave in its own skull, it would almost certainly die from cranial hemmoraghing soon afterward, if not that, infections.
Ah yes, I heard about that one when I was a kid, forgot to mention it!
Damn headless chicken stayed alive for weeks… months I think?
It would walk around attempting to peck at things with a head it didn’t have… they used a little dropper to squirt some mushed up food … directly into its throat…
…and it actually died because one day it choked during this kind of feeding session, concievably it could have lived longer had that not happened.
Or at least thats the ‘death account’ I remeber my grandpa telling me, apparently there are multiple stories as to what exactly cause Mike to pass on.
Animals, and people, can and have continued to be alive and… somewhat, or even mostly functional… with portions of their brains obliterated or removed.
Go look up Phinneas Gage, or the history of lobotomies and brain surgeries.
Now, this person could be describing bloody chunks of the skull and skin and fur, but it is not strictly impossible that the deer could have actually managed to loose chunks of its actual brain, and still remain capable enough to keep functioning…
… for a while, at least. If it did really cave in its own skull, it would almost certainly die from cranial hemmoraghing soon afterward, if not that, infections.
ya’ll ever hear about “Mike the Headless Chicken”? survived 18 months after a botched beheading left him his brain stem.
Ah yes, I heard about that one when I was a kid, forgot to mention it!
Damn headless chicken stayed alive for weeks… months I think?
It would walk around attempting to peck at things with a head it didn’t have… they used a little dropper to squirt some mushed up food … directly into its throat…
…and it actually died because one day it choked during this kind of feeding session, concievably it could have lived longer had that not happened.
Or at least thats the ‘death account’ I remeber my grandpa telling me, apparently there are multiple stories as to what exactly cause Mike to pass on.