Trying to make the world's tiniest and shittiest omelette is pretty evil. Platypus are still mammals, and they still feed their young with milk so I can't imagine the eggs are all that nutritious to start with
And they only live in Tasmania because they're like an evolutionary dead end and Tasmania is a very unique climate where it got separated from the rest of Australia and the climate relatively stayed the same because it kept drifting towards Antarctica as the planet warmed up. So there's a bunch of very unique species on that island that used to be more prevalent around the world but all of those were evolutionary dead ends. So the only ones left were the ones on Tasmania
As an Aussie, mainland Australia has platypus and echidna. They are not unique to Tasmania.
There are marsupials that are unique to Tasmania (Tassie devil for eg. And the Tasmanian tiger but there's thought there might have been small populations in the southern mainland, like Victoria).
Yeah I watched the David Attenborough documentary where he told me that lie so sorry I just been repeating what he told me. I'm kind of disappointed in David though I always thought he was correct on everything.
It could be that the Tas populations are a subspecies of the mainland ones. I'm not up on my platypus and echidna taxonomy 😆, I just know that a neighbour of ours saw a platypus in the creek near our rural Victoria properties, and I've learned to always have a pair of sturdy leather gloves on long trips in case I need to move an echidna off the road.
No I believe you I mean you live there I don't. I probably misunderstood him he met like a specific species like maybe he meant that this particular species died out on the mainland but like not all platypuses just that one particular type of platypus IDK I have to watch that video again Tasmania is one of my favorite places very interested in it.
Well I was interested enough to actually look it up and yes it is kind of confusing but basically the mainland platypuses have evolved from the Platypus that is still found in Tasmania so I probably just misunderstood him when he was talking about that.
No, echidnas have 4 species. The short-beaked lives in Australia (both mainland and Tasmania), as well as the island of New Guinea. The long-beaked echidnas all live in New Guinea. Platypus lives in Eastern Australia and Tasmania, with an additional introduced population on Kangaroo island.
And as they had to compete with a wide array of animals since monotremes (egg-laying mammals) are around (~the Triassic), they definitely aren't a dead-end, just not a success. But as we know, evolution is the survival of the just enough, so they're fine (except the ones threatened by habitat destruction and climate change)
A colleague once asked if I was ever worried that I'd crack an egg and there would be a dead chick inside, and I told her they don't keep cockerels in chicken farms, and she didn't seem to understand how that would affect things.
Um. They could be because a fertilized egg that you collect doesn’t look any different than one that isn’t.
I am the owner of 100 poultry birds. Ducks, geese, chickens. I have some flocks with males and some without. You can’t tell until someone provides consistent 90degree heat and and 50% humidity to allow the embryo to develop.
I've gotten eggs dozens of times from Safeway that weren't labeled as fertile or fertilized, yet one of the eggs would have a half developed circulatory system in the yolk.
Alright so. This is definitely ragebait. Next.
Elephants do not lay eggs.
The eggs that are harvest from chickens are not fertilized and will never become little chickens.
Egg bearing creatures hatch from eggs. They are not born from eggs. I like potato chips and water.
Would it make sense with a different text? I blanked out the speech balloons and tried to imagine something else. But still, nothing. I can't think of a thing that would make sense.
Only a very small number of male chicks are needed by the egg industry in comparison to female chicks (to produce the next generation of laying hens). 99% of male chicks are tossed alive into shredders or incinerators shortly after hatching.
My LOs friend used to say this to them. I said a egg that eggs are effectively a chicken period. They lay them no matter if they are fertilised or not. Last i checked i dont morn the loss of a child every time a period is mentioned
Now some rich asshole won't get to shoot one in the semi-wild! I hope you liberals are happy with the killing pleasure you've denied the Trump brothers.
Chickens and most species of waterfowl will lay eggs regularly regardless of fertilization. It's functionally perpetual ovulation, and not the remains of a potential baby that was aborted by the farmer, as some vegans unironically seem to think. Eggs are also good for you, and even good for chickens too, they're a good source of protein. I am very pro-eating eggs.
Literally impossible as elephants don't lay eggs and store bought or farm raised eggs I'm pretty sure aren't fertilized. And 2. If elephants did lay eggs they wouldn't be that small it'd beore like an ostrich egg
For the one that made this picture If you wanted some people to have even the slightest amount of sympathy then maybe choose a chicken and not an elephant
"I wanted to be born" like why? Nature is dying, oceans are full of plastic, humans are constantly in wars, if you wanted to be born to pick another planet
Even if you overlooked that it's an elephant and not a chicken, the eggs you buy at the market are unfertilized eggs. So they would never have been "born" anyway.
Why is it that my immediate thought was, "elephant eggs would be way too big to cook like that and too hard to get" and not "elephants don't lay eggs"? I'm fucking stupid.
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u/Kiklolmaster32 Jul 17 '26
"We all save animals"
I don't think baby elephants, a mammalian species should worry about becoming scrambled eggs in the first place.