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Close, I looked it up out of curiosity, it seems Waterfowl eat the eggs, but they travel through their digestive system fully alive. Really interesting even so!
by giancarlostoro 3mo ago
Close, I looked it up out of curiosity, it seems Waterfowl eat the eggs, but they travel through their digestive system fully alive. Really interesting even so!
- BurningFrog 3mo agoI can see how the evolutionary advantage of such hardened eggs would be huge!
- barbazoo 3mo agoRight, as long as you can still get out.
- soperj 3mo agoI would think that would lead to a lot of inbred fish
- lazystar 3mo agoa high rate of mutations would be an advantage in a new environment, though.
- prerok 3mo agoIf it happened just once, yes.
- MagicMoonlight 3mo ago[dead]
- vitally3643 3mo agoThis tends to simply not be that much of a problem for "lower" species.
- ErroneousBosh 3mo agoEvolved so they *only* hatch after passing through the digestive system of a waterfowl might be a good evolutionary trick to avoid inbreeding. Your eggs won't hatch until they're well away from your relatives.
- steve_adams_86 3mo agoIn my experience, inbreeding doesn't seem to bother fish very much. Certainly you don't want it to happen too much, but I have several species of fish that have inbred and they look fantastic. I'm sure if I continued this line with absolutely no introduction of new genetics, some problems could arise... But after a few generations, they're doing great. I will add new genetics to the line soon, for what it's worth. It isn't an experiment to see what will happen. In most cases I never expected them to breed to begin with.