Parents in life, skin on the body, by the parents. Our parents went through countless hardships to give birth to us, and they raised us with hardships. Of course, in addition to us humans, the same is true of the animal kingdom, and even their conditions are worse and harder than those of me humans. However, laying eggs is a way for animals to reproduce, and in addition to the common avian eggs, many animals around the world lay strangely shaped eggs. This time, Top Jun will take you to see the 10 most peculiar animal eggs.
octopus
<h1>octopus</h1>
Octopus is fierce, cruel and scheming, and it is very dangerous for people to go to sea to encounter it. But the love of the son is heartfelt, which is an inherent habit of octopus. It is very loving and considerate of its children, and even willing to die of exhaustion.
During the breeding season, mother octopus lays bunches of sparkling, grape-like eggs. Mother octopus usually chooses to spawn in the cave, in order to prevent the children from being washed away by the sea and afraid of being eaten by other predators, so they will stay in place and will not forage for food for up to 3-6 months. Octopus eggs are loved in some countries because they are a table delicacy, especially in the Japanese region.
robin
<h1>robin</h1>
When Top Jun saw that this so-called robin egg was blue, he was really unconsciously amazed by the magic of nature and our pursuit of beauty.
Their eggs are mostly oval in shape and light blue in color. After two weeks, a bird will break out of its shell and fly in another two weeks. When a born robin is naked, it takes days to open its eyes. The chicks will still follow the adults for a while and beg for food from the latter. Male robins will also judge whether the chicks inside are healthy based on the color of these eggs. This color of egg Top Jun is still the first time to see, presumably God is destined to make it different.
green lacewing
<h1>green lacewing</h1>
Grasshoppers lay their eggs at night, and a female can lay 100 to 200 eggs. Grasshoppers will hang their eggs like balloons on the stems and leaves of plants to avoid the invasion of heaven and earth. These "balloons" then darken and new larvae are born from them.
As soon as these larvae land on the ground, they immediately enter a predatory state. If there are no female grasshoppers nearby ready to eat, they will eat their siblings. However, depending on the environment, the larvae need 1-3 weeks to pupate. Temperate species usually spend their winters in the form of pupae.
kiwi
<h1>kiwi</h1>
On the old North and South Islands of New Zealand, birds don't have to escape because there are no beasts or snakes. Food is abundant on the ground, and the ability to fly is gradually degraded. There are many endemic birds, many of which are wingless. But most wingless birds have gone extinct in recent centuries after humans landed, and the kiwi is the only wingless bird that has survived.
Kiwi birds are about the size of a hen, but the eggs they lay are much larger than those laid by hens. Its eggs are almost the same size as they are. In order to produce such a large egg, female kiwi birds consume more than 3 times the average daily intake of calories during pregnancy. Because the size of the egg is so large, the kiwi bird must not be eaten in the last few days of pregnancy. Because there is no more room to digest food. Scientists used to think that these giant eggs were not common sense and should be the result of evolutionary errors.
Yellow-headed posterior jaw
<h1>Yellow-headed posterior jaw</h1>
Fish eggs in the water are like eggs on land, rich in nutrients, easy to become the bait of many aquatic animals, so they are also vulnerable to invasion and cruelty. This male yellow-headed posterior jaw flavips keep the eggs in their mouths to protect them from danger during hatching.
After they mate, the female leaves the fertilized egg to the male. Males will hold these eggs in their mouths and hatch, a process that takes about 7-9 days. It carefully guards the eggs until the small fish hatch. After hatching, the juveniles tend to stay with their fathers and hide in their father's mouths when they encounter danger.
Darwin Frog
<h1>Darwin Frog</h1>
The average species of frogs lay thousands of eggs, while Darwin frogs lay only 20-30 eggs, because the cubs of Darwin frogs are well protected so that their offspring can continue.
The average frog father uses the sound sacs to attract females, while the Darwin frog father uses the sound sacs to protect the children. After the female Darwin frog lays eggs, the male will store the chaos in the vocal sacs until the tadpoles hatch, and then spit them out when the tadpoles grow up. This process, from spawning to forming small frogs, takes about 30 weeks to complete development. After spitting them out, the little frogs began to live on their own.
Vermioss
<h1>Vermioss</h1>
The salamander existed on Earth for about 250 million years, and the salamander survived when dinosaurs and many other species disappeared from the earth.
After breeding, the mother salamander will grow an extra layer of fat-rich skin, containing the same nutrients as milk, which can replenish the fat of the cubs and help them grow. The salamander's teeth are sharp at an early age, allowing it to easily bite off its mother's skin, and as the salamander matures, it loses its deciduous teeth and grows extremely sharp oval teeth. At this point, they feed mainly on worms and termites.
Dai Sheng Bird
<h1>Dai Sheng Bird</h1>
Many people mistake the Daisheng bird for a woodpecker, but it is not, the woodpecker does not have this color scheme, nor does it have such a slender mouth. Although this bird is not low in appearance, but it does not pay much attention to personal hygiene, especially in the breeding season, the female bird does not go out of the nest at all during the incubation of eggs in the nest, eating and drinking Lasa are solved in the nest, making the nest dirty and smelly, not only that, the female bird will also secrete a kind of grease with a foul odor, so that the nest stinks. And in the face of his wife, the male bird is not abandoned, it will be caught every day to the female bird to eat, the original unpleasant smell can smoke away the uninvited guests, this is the alternative self-restraint method of the Dai Sheng bird,
ant
<h1>ant</h1>
The eggs of the ants are shaped like white rice, mostly white, and some of the eggs are pink. There is usually only one queen in a nest, and all the eggs are laid by the queen.
A queen ant can lay up to 300,000 eggs at a time, and it can decide which eggs to hatch first. And these who are hatched first become working ants, that is, responsible for searching for food and taking care of the eggs. Some of those who are later hatched become males and mate with queens. At the same time, queens can also decide which eggs will become the next generation of queens.
Horned sharks
<h1>Horned sharks</h1>
Horned sharks are oviparous sharks that lay eggs with thick egg sheaths that allow them to attach to rocks or seaweed and resist predators.
The egg shape of the horned shark is very peculiar, this black substance, and the composition of human hair and nails is very similar, these small sharks use the nutrients in the yolk sac to grow up, the whole hatching process will generally reach more than a few months, because the incubation time is relatively long, so it needs good protection. This shape is beneficial to the egg from being eaten by other organisms, because the shape is not very good to bite, and even if it is eaten, it will not hurt the central part.
How, after reading this, do you feel that nature is incredible? In fact, there should be more peculiar breeding methods, but Top Jun is really limited in knowledge and can only collect so much. So do you know what else?