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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“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.””
Do you think that the science-writers ever pause to truly think about the implications of “settled science” when they insert a passage from a great man-of-science who’s ideas have been invalidated by a recent discovery? Nah!
Jeez, thank you science...now I can focus on something I care about, which is why Democrats are so liberal?
“If you believe the old wives tales, a neat bump that sits high on the stomach means youre having a boy, while a low, rounded bump that spreads over the waist and hips is a girl.” - By SARAH RAINEY FOR THE DAILY MAIL
There, figured it out and it cost 10 minutes of my life.
A revolver with a broken yoke is just about useless ;)
And if you’ve had a couple of kids, a boy and a girl, you know that’s nonsense lol
“””Stronger fliers, such as swallows, had elongated or pointy eggs. Birds that couldn’t fly so far or fast had rounder, more symmetric ones”””
Yeah, that’s why chickens, who can’t fly, have elongated eggs. /s
...an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters and an infinite amount of time ...
Chickens,monkeys,liberals...
The problem is , an infinite number of typewriters would require an infinite amount of energy(production, use, maintenance...).
We simply cannot go there.
“Was the cloaca round or square?”
Certainly the good people at Colonel Sanders have made that determination by now?
There was once a product called The Square Egg.
Oldsters will remember it. The same era as the Pet Rock.
IIRC, it was a little Lucite box with a screw press on top, like a tiny wine press.
Another FReeper actually owns one.
Let’s please not discuss chicken vaginas from here forward.
Please.
“Why do I always have to be the smart guy who figures this stuff out?”
And lopsided men run circles around the hills of success.
My niece won’t eat eggs because they come from there, so I guess I should have known to be more sensitive.
My apologies.
No matter what shape eggs happened to be, by definition theyd be egg shaped.
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”
“I still want to know why songbirds and other non-domesticated birds dont lay an egg every day, like chickens do.”
If a hen and a half,
Lays an egg and a half,
In a day in a half,
How many eggs will six hens lay I seven days?
Almost as if some incredibly brilliant, all-wise and all-knowing being had conceived them. Hmmmmm.......
“Is that you Bald Eagle?”
I’m bald all right, but never made Eagle, bird, chicken or anything close?
“And if youve had a couple of kids, a boy and a girl, you know thats nonsense lol”
Have a boy and a girl. And yes, it’s nonsense.
42.
I only remembered the problem and having fun with it at work.
So I cheated...28 eggs.
Fun, I like to have it down pat, then spring it when needed. But I have contracted C.R.S.
Yes!
It is exciting to see and understand some of His work.
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