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Bird Eggs

Birds eggs are colored for protective reasons. The parent birds that incubate
them are not always on the nest covering them, and those times, the eggs are
exposed to predators. The color, speckles or spots on them are camouflage. That
explains why birds that nest in cavities often lay all white eggs. They cant be
seen even when the parent birds are not sitting on them. Again, to protect them,
birds that nest on cliffs, such as many seabirds, tend to have eggs that are
smaller at one end than at the other. This is to make them roll in a circle and less
likely to fall off the cliff. Birds with round eggs, usually build deep nests that keep
them from rolling out.
 Crocodile Eggs

The eggs resemble chicken eggs, but have a much thinner shell. The female
then digs a hole a few metres from the bank and up to 500 mm (20 in) deep, and
lays between 25 and 80 eggs. The number of eggs varies, but averages around
50. Multiple females may nest close together.
 Turtle Eggs

The eggs of the largest species are spherical, while the eggs of the rest are
elongated. Their albumen is white and contains a different protein from bird eggs,
such that it will not coagulate when cooked. Turtle eggs prepared to eat consist
mainly of yolk. In some species, temperature determines whether an egg
develops into a male or a female: a higher temperature causes a female a lower
temperature causes a male. Large numbers of eggs are deposited in holes dug
into mud or sand. They are then covered and left to incubate by themselves.
 Platypus Eggs

It lays one to three (usually two) small, leathery eggs (similar to those of reptiles),
about 11 mm (0.43 in) in diameter and slightly rounder than bird eggs. [54] The eggs
develop in utero for about 28 days, with only about 10 days of external incubation (in
contrast to a chicken egg, which spends about one day in tract and 21 days
externally).[43] After laying her eggs, the female curls around them. The incubation
period is divided into three phases. In the first phase, the embryo has no functional
organs and relies on the yolk sac for sustenance. The yolk is absorbed by the
developing young.[56] During the second phase, the digits develop, and in the last
phase, the egg tooth appears