Animals that lay eggs
If you are asked whether you know animals that lay eggs, the birds will surely come to your mind. But there are many other animal species whose offspring grow in fertilized, deposited eggs. You will get to know some of them here.
Watch low animals lay their eggs
Not only birds, but other animal species on earth lay eggs to reproduce. Remember that phylum animals include molluscs, annelids and arthropods.
- In the case of snails, which are molluscs, the eggs are laid one month after mating. It is interesting for you to know that to do this, they dig a hole in the ground up to 12 cm deep with their feet, into which they lay around 80 pea-sized eggs.
- While the snails do not lay their eggs until after fertilization, the earthworm, which is a hermaphrodite, is there As soon as the egg cells are mature, the egg packet is removed with a mucous membrane and fertilized with the stored ones Sperm.
- The animals that lay eggs include insects. How to find the egg-laying of butterflies under the leaves of certain plants, while the grasshopper is after the Mating with their laying stinger sunk up to 100 eggs deep into the ground so that the larvae hatch from them in spring can.
Look at vertebrates laying eggs
The vertebrates that lay eggs include fish, as well as amphibians, reptiles, birds, and one mammal: the platypus.
Chicken: Reproduction - Information
The chicken belongs to the class of birds. Reproduction takes place through incubation ...
- Most sexually mature female fish release their eggs, the spawn, into the water, where they are fertilized by the sperm of the male fish. Note, however, that some fish species also stick their eggs to stones or plants.
- Amphibians, which include frogs, have to go back into the water to lay their eggs. The young animals, the tadpoles, hatch from them.
- Reptiles, on the other hand, lay their eggs in holes in the ground that they dig. It is interesting for you to know that turtles return to their place of birth time and again to reproduce there through the fertilized oviposition.
- The most famous animals that lay eggs are the birds. The bankiva chicken is considered to be the ancestor of the chicken, from which our domestic chicken is also descended. The eggs they lay are not only used for reproduction, but also as food by humans.
- It is interesting for you to know that there is also a mammal that lays eggs. The platypus lives in Australia, lays its eggs in a burrow it has dug, incubates them and suckles the offspring with milk after they hatch.
