http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/08/31/massive-eggs-were-the-most-fragile-of-any-bird-pocket-science/ Dive into the awe-inspiring, beautiful and quirky world of science news with award-winning writer Ed Yong. No previous experience required. Sat, 26 May 2012 10:52:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/08/31/massive-eggs-were-the-most-fragile-of-any-bird-pocket-science/comment-page-1/#comment-53878 Anton LeRoux-Marx Sun, 28 Aug 2011 14:46:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=2501#comment-53878 I really don't know where the information was derived from that "like Ostriches, Emus and Reas, it's the lighter males that incubate the eggs and rears the young". Well, I can't speak for the others but, being a South African familiar with Ostriches, I can tell you that the male is decidedly bigger and heavier than the female. Also, the female, being brown, incubates the eggs during the day, and the male, being predominately black, does so at night. The egg's shell is exceedingly thick and strong, able to take the full weight of a human. Unsubstantiated comments like this have the unfortunate ability to cast doubt on the WHOLE article, so don't do it! I really don’t know where the information was derived from that “like Ostriches, Emus and Reas, it’s the lighter males that incubate the eggs and rears the young”. Well, I can’t speak for the others but, being a South African familiar with Ostriches, I can tell you that the male is decidedly bigger and heavier than the female. Also, the female, being brown, incubates the eggs during the day, and the male, being predominately black, does so at night. The egg’s shell is exceedingly thick and strong, able to take the full weight of a human.
Unsubstantiated comments like this have the unfortunate ability to cast doubt on the WHOLE article, so don’t do it!

]]> http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/08/31/massive-eggs-were-the-most-fragile-of-any-bird-pocket-science/comment-page-1/#comment-15393 Meng Bomin Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:27:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/?p=2501#comment-15393 It almost sounds like they were asking to go extinct. It almost sounds like they were asking to go extinct.

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