Laying a cubed egg sounds painful, pointy, and inefficient for a natural design. The roundness of an egg seems to make sense. Hmm, just my thought, though.
@@wannabehero939 Yeah, that would be pretty convenient.The evolution of birds procreation is solely for our grocery supply. I now know the meaning of life 🤯...well, at least for birds.
@@micahholt9895 haha, chill, I don't suggest it, it is just a thing from the same realm as "what if there were apples that taste like beef", I don't say we should cultivate apples like that, you don't have to be so mean about me just saying "imagine if something-something".
@@wannabehero939 I'm joking. I would hope you noticed, but I forgot that this is the RU-vid comment section, being typical of looney people who would actually think and speak that way. So, it's understandable 😂
I will put a heart next to every comment that has an egg pun in it. You know what to do. EDIT: omg you are posting so many egg puns, I am so happy and I can't keep up
The chart shows the chicken egg to be significantly less elliptic and significantly less asymmetric than the average egg. Very much an outlier. Maybe you should get better at reading graphs instead of confusing people by pretending to know what you're talking about.
@@E44ghCr4p It can be very far away from the average egg, that wouldn't make it an outlier. An outlier is a data point that is far away from other data points, and you really can't say that about chicken eggs. They aren't where most eggs are concentrated, granted, but there are still a great many eggs nearby that calling it an outlier is just... wrong. Also, with how varied the egg shapes are, I'm not even sure it's all that far away. I wouldn't be surprised if it's within 2 standard deviations or so.
I forgot where I heard this, but because the shells of the egg is hard,(only counts for the eggs that have hard shells, obviously) the shape of the egg distribute the pressure as he said in the video, so in order to not get crushed by actually being laid, that shape is egg shape
I love videos like these where I have a rough idea of what the answer to the question might be, but then you proceed to show me just how much more wonderful and fascinating it actually is!
For a note at the beginning, that ~20 billion is ONLY commercial farms. This doesn't include free-range/wild chickens, which is estimated to be about 45-50 billion.
My favourite thing about eggs is eating them. Fried eggs, soft-boiled, hard-boiled, deviled, scrambled, even raw and warm cracked over noodles or sticky rice. YUM! Such nutrients. Much taste!
I'm not exactly egg-static about this, but I should get my sunny side up and not boil under pressure. Not exactly scrambling to join this slew of egg-tastic puns though! (sunny side up, boiled, and scrambled eggs...)
Animals that spend any significant time "making a living " in the water have round eggs, whether jellyed, or shelled. Any species that spends their lives on the land(obviously, we are discussing eggs, which aren't laid in the Air. So, birds are land-based critters in this context), will have an "egg-shape".
Wow. Food channels fail to tell you that vinegar in the water for hard boiled eggs helps with peeling BECAUSE it dissolves the shell (I'm a layman that's how I remember it. Could not be worded right). That make sense and now I'm incensed to try it.
Eggvolution isn't the most eggxact science. However at times can be eggciting eggspecially when they hatch! It's pretty eggxcellent if I do say so myself
A better question is, why would they lay square eggs? A round shape makes sense, it's what happens when you cover a small thing in lots of layers. A square shape would have to be deliberately formed that way. It's like asking why isn't a poop square? Because it comes out a round hole, obviously.
I came here for nerdery and random facts, but also received dad jokes and puns. A smile was brought to my face, there's never enough puns and dad jokes in the world. Carry on with thine punnery, let not the cries of the heretic drown out glorious dad-humor.
_Oh wait, oh wait, I know this one, let me answer:_ Because 1. Squares are a 2-dimensional shape and 3D volumes cannot be “a square”, and 2. Because cube-shaped eggs make no flipping sense because right angles are rarely ever found in nature whereas smooth rounded surfaces occur all the time.
1:39 use a stronger egg, put water in it, have a baby, on land, in an egg, water is in the egg, baby in the egg, in the water, in the egg. Works for me
I feel like this would be the equivalent of saying, is a triangle really triangle shaped? Because one triangle shape is acute and one triangle shape is obtuse.
You can't grab a square egg through a round bird but(t) or is it you can't put a round peg through a square hole. If the egg was a square, It would have length and width but no height and pass right through anything.
My theory: The egg shape makes it easier for the chicks to peck their way out of the sides, since the longer sides don't take as much force to break. Maybe the sphere is inefficient for hatching purposes since it distributes force more evenly than the egg shape, requiring more force to break apart. Maybe the egg shape is a two deals in one kinda thing, allowing the egg to not be initially crushed by the mother (orientated in the way egg cartons do) and making hatching easier since it takes less force to peck at the sides. My two cents ( ' > ' )
