2007-01-31 10:01:37 · 19 answers · asked by christopher831@btinternet.com 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Steven's right, owl & woodpecker eggs are round ... in fact this website says that bird's eggs come in five different shapes:
http://www.earthlife.net/birds/eggs.html
I'd always heard though that hen's eggs were oval to stop them rolling out of the nest ... so I can only presume that owls & woodpeckers have different kinds of nest ??
Turtles also lay round eggs:
http://www.chelydra.org/eggs.jpg
Here you go, even more than you ever wanted to know about eggs, lol:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(biology)
2007-01-31 16:45:10 · answer #1 · answered by Solow 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The eggs of a few birds are purely about round regardless of the indisputable fact that the shape looks to count number at this style of the nest. Eggs in properly-built nests are better round than eggs laid on cliff ledges. Eggs of the latter have an extremely tapered oval style so as that they are probably to roll round in a circle and not in any respect fall over the sting.
2016-12-03 07:17:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution - oval eggs roll around in a rough circle, ie not out of the nest, whereas round eggs would roll away. If you look at seabirds' eggs, particularly ones that nest on cliffs, they are much more oval-shaped for that reason.
2007-01-31 10:11:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The oval shape provides architectural strength from end to end.
Far more than a ball.
Any weight on the top of the egg is spread onto a much larger area as you go down the egg.
2007-01-31 10:08:02 · answer #4 · answered by Bloke Ala Sarcasm 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So the eggs won't roll out the nest but round enough for the bird turn them over.
2007-01-31 10:14:07 · answer #5 · answered by ~Kitana~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because would you really want to hear the noise of a chicken trying to lay a sphere?? They are oval to precipitate the egg laying mechanism of hens.
2007-01-31 10:11:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
oval is easier for chicken or other egg layers to push out a round one would slip and slide round and be harder to get out try a ball with a ring to see and then try an egg.
the ovel end is narrower getting through the opening while round egg would be not opening it slowly but stretching it very wide.
2007-01-31 10:05:53 · answer #7 · answered by Nutty Girl 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gravity. Have you ever noticed water droplets fall down. Its oval. Because of the gravity pull it takes that shape. Look around you will find many things oval just because of gravity pull of the earth.
2007-02-03 17:26:44 · answer #8 · answered by ndeepuachari 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stops them rolling away - eggs roll in a circle and not a straight line because they are not round.
2007-01-31 10:16:48 · answer #9 · answered by monkeymanelvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when a chicken Or other bird etc lays an egg the shell is actually slightly soft and therefore gently flexs to the shape of the rear end.
the shell then hardens in the air.
2007-01-31 10:16:25 · answer #10 · answered by sabrina 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋