# Ok, this cant be real right? Sergei S. Bryukhonenko, dog head experiment)

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 1, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-cant-be-real-right-sergei-s-bryukhonenko-dog-head-experiment/512205 "2009-10-01T04:04:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 4, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-cant-be-real-right-sergei-s-bryukhonenko-dog-head-experiment/512205/21 "2009-10-04T19:41:37Z")

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> [@Alex\_Dubinsky](#):
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> The article, though saying Bryukhoneko’s work is legit, doesn’t give much credence to the film. It confirms that all the other shots in the movie were of the easy-to-fake variety, and points out some claims of the narrators that were demonstrably lies.
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> What I’m seeing is they’re doing the whole make-a-person-look-like-he’s-got-half-a-body hollywood trick. Just take a look at the very last shot. How is the dog shaking its head if it doesn’t have a neck?!

Don’t know about the film itself (haven’t seen it, don’t \*want \*to see it unless I’m in a lunch hurling mood :)), but if the work itself was legit and happened, it’s not all that far fetched for the autonomous head in the vid to have happened as well, even though the narrator embellished the story.  
The science isn’t particularly esoteric and besides, propaganda-wise, I’m sure the folks in the Kremlin could have come up with better made-up examples of wondrous Russian science than a living severed head :p.

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**Post date:** [October 5, 2009, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-this-cant-be-real-right-sergei-s-bryukhonenko-dog-head-experiment/512205/22 "2009-10-05T20:52:50Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> The video has been doctored in at least one way. The label of the citric acid bottle is not real - it has been superimposed - it doesn’t jiggle around in sync with the film and just before the shot changes, it disappears, revealing a light label with dark writing on it.
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> I’m assuming this is just a way of translating the thing though

Correct. The last frame of the “bottle” shot shows the actual label with Cyrillic script reading “limonnaia kislota” (literally “lemon sour”), i.e. citric acid.

> [@Alex\_Dubinsky](#):
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> Just take a look at the very last shot. How is the dog shaking its head if it doesn’t have a neck?!

The jaw muscles contract as the dog licks and otherwise reacts, and that makes the detached head move.

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