This is when animals feed infertile eggs to their offspring.
这是动物将未受精卵喂给后代的时候。
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Like chickens, female turtles can lay eggs without a male turtle being around to fertilize them — although these infertile eggs won't hatch.
像鸡一样,雌性海龟可以在没有雄性海龟为其受精的情况下产卵——尽管这些未受精的卵不会孵化。
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Meanwhile, the queen lays thousands of eggs every day and is tended to by members of her entourage, which nourish her with the large, infertile eggs they lay.
An egg is the organic vessel containing the zygote in which an animal embryo develops until it can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches. An egg results from fertilization of an ovum. Most arthropods, vertebrates, and mollusks lay eggs, although some do not, such as scorpions and most mammals.