Miracle? These Animals Return to Life After Dying

Decades ago I heard a story of a Cajun duck hunter that still has me laughing.

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This duck hunter had finally invited his 10-year-old son to hunt with him and his buddies in their large duck blind.

Not long after daylight a group of mallards began to circle the blind and with some gentle calling, the ducks began to make their final descent and landed. Dad raised his shotgun and fired three rounds before any other hunters had the chance. Immediately, all the ducks jumped up and hastily flew off.

Without missing a beat, the Dad looked at his son and said, "Son, I can't believe that you are only ten years old and you already got to see a miracle like that." The son replied, "Miracle?" Dad returned, "Yeah. The miracle of them dead ducks getting up and flying off like that."

While not exactly as "miraculous" or humorous as those "dead ducks flying off" in our story, there are indeed several animals that can live long after what most would conceive as a sure death.

However, death is death, and once declared "dead", nothing, other than Lazarus and a few other selected Biblical characters, can return from death.

Oxford Languages declares the definition of death to be, "the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism." That's the permanency of death. It's over. But is it?

In an article on top10animal.com, we learn there are actually several animals or organisms that even when deemed by standards most of us would call "death", can continue on, even if in zombie-like fashion.

I'm almost sure that I have met a couple of mindless people in my life that prove this theory, but that's another story.

Just look at these 5 Real Life Zombies; Animals That Live After Death and see if you agree!