Posted on 06/22/2017 8:51:26 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
But the universe of wild bird eggs is far weirder and more diverse than the oval products on the supermarket shelf. Hummingbirds lay eggs shaped like Tic Tac mints - "perfect little ellipses," per ornithologist and evolutionary biologist Mary Stoddard. Sandpiper eggs come to peaks, in the manner of teardrops. Owls plop out tight spheres not unlike ping-pong balls ... scientists linked egg shapes to birds' flight behavior. Stronger fliers, such as swallows, had elongated or pointy eggs. Birds that couldn't fly so far or fast had rounder, more symmetric ones... Aristotle, said Douglas G.D. Russell, curator of the egg and nest collections at London's Natural History Museum, "believed the cock hatched from a pointed chicken egg and hens from the rounder." The analysis revealed adaptations for an aerodynamic body had a "knock-on effect" for egg shape, Stoddard said. Pointy or elongated eggs don't help a gravid bird fly, in other words. But the demands of powerful flight restructured internal organs. The abdominal cavity of the superior fliers became smaller, for example, forcing egg shape to change
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SHEESH! LOL
You make it sound like a springloaded steel trap or something. I somehow think chicken vaginas don’t slam, surely it’s a more feminine means of closure.
Was the cloaca round or square? That might have something to do with it! An egg is incredible strong due to its shape and can sustain incredible compression pressures and will fall out the cloaca very easily due to its shape. That is all you really need to know. Would you rather push out nice angular blocks that are structurally weak or a nice round ovoid that contains your heritage.
Sometimes the only thing that exceeds the stupidly of science is professors of science.
I am a scientist but not beloved by my former colleges. I never asked for grants nor subscribed to political correct science that in reality is nothing but science by the highest bidder. My beloved granddaddy called such as this lying bastar-ds.
The square melons grown in Japan are only used for displays. They don’t taste as good as regular melons. (My daughter learned this on her cultural exchange trip last summer).
The joke about “slamming shut” is quite possibly as old as humanity. If you never heard it before consider yourself blessed. (The joke is actually about why something else is tapered at each end, but I won’t go there.)
I’ve somehow missed out on that one.
I was losing so much sleep over this.
I still want to know why songbirds and other non-domesticated birds don’t lay an egg every day, like chickens do.
Are you old enough to remember these?
Not all turtle eggs are round.
If that gadget was in my parent’s or my grandma’s kitchen, I must have overlooked it.
I probably would have thought it was some kind of Kerosene Lamp with the wick taken out.
Those we had on the living room mantel for decoration.
You are right, you would need the Red Copper Square Pan as advertised on tv for that.
At this particular moment in time and it is current and very paticular ... I am deeply satisfied, satiated and content to be dumber than a dumgrunt.
You make more sense than I have for the last 2 - 3 hours
Just returned from karaoke ... there are blanks to fill but I am sleepy
Thank you Good Night
“Always remember: A wet bird, never flies at night.”
Is that you Bald Eagle?
“Always remember: A wet bird, never flies at night.”
Is that you Bald Eagle?
Thanks, I didn't know. I know the eggs of some sea turtles are round.
Thanks for posting.
We've come a long way, baby.
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