MaxBaz Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 This is totally weird - read this in the Daily Telegraph Website about 5 minutes ago: "The bizarre discovery was made by a doctor in Darwin as he made dinner earlier this week. Peter Beaumont broke open an egg and was shocked to find a dead gecko inside. “I was cracking the eggs into a pan when I noticed one of them was all cloudy. I looked at the shell and saw a tiny gecko,” he said. The lizard could not have entered the egg after it was cracked open because it was embedded between the interior of the shell and the egg’s membrane, he said. Dr Beaumont believes the lizard climbed into the chicken’s bottom, perhaps to feed on an embryo, before dying and becoming cocooned in the developing egg. “Eggs are made inside chooks up this tube from their bottom,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. “Now obviously this tube is in contact with the whole outside world. It has to be that the gecko climbed up inside the chook and died up there while the egg was being formed. “If you open up a dead chook, you sometimes see the partly-formed eggs. The gecko could have been looking for a feed and got trapped.” Dr Beaumont, 60, the president of the Australian Medical Association in the Northern Territory, said his unusual find could be a world first. He has handed the remains of the egg to health authorities who will try to work out exactly how the gecko got inside the egg. The Australian Egg Corporation said it had never heard of such a case before. “Certainly the gecko wouldn’t have been ingested by the bird. It would be physically impossible for it to make its way from the digestive tract into the area where the egg’s formed,” said the corporation’s research and development manager, David Witcombe. " This is definately one for mega-all knowing Egultine!!!!! What does everybody make of this!!!!!!!! There is a picture on the website as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 People have had worms inside eggs before now. The theory that critters climb inside the hen via the vent and then get incorporated into the egg formation must be right.....unless someone had tricked him with a gecko egg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilda-and-evadne Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Hmm. Wouldn't the, er, environment of the hen's bum be too acidic for the gecko even to enter? I think that the gecko fell from the ceiling just as the doctor in Darwin was cracking open the shell, and in the excitement he muddled it up with the fragments of eggshell. (I grew up in the tropics, where geckos run around the ceilings and walls indoors, and sometimes even with their "sticky" feet they fell off.) But hey, what do I know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxBaz Posted May 16, 2008 Author Share Posted May 16, 2008 The weird thing is the gecko is BETWEEN the membrane and the shell. If you go to the website (www.telegraph.co.uk/new/newstopics/howaboutthat) you can see the picture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Oh yes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaxBaz Posted May 16, 2008 Author Share Posted May 16, 2008 Thanks Egluntine for posting the picture - still can't get my head around that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 thats freaky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surferdog Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 [ the lizard climbed into the chicken’s bottom . Yueeeeew The indignities our poor girls have to suffer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 Awww, what a gorgeous Gecko. I love them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaylis1980 Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 im glad im not a chicken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christian Posted May 16, 2008 Share Posted May 16, 2008 I don't know, cockroaches in kettles, spiders in coffee pots, and now geckos in eggs!! What is happening in the world?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
