"I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg" – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862
How do eggs form and why are they created in so many different shapes? When does the egg start hardening during incubation? Why on earth does some eggs contain two egg yolks? How can the birds produce amazing patterns and colors on their eggshells, and why do they vary so? What end of the egg is first to come out - the round end or the pointy end? These are just a few of the questions that get answers in the book "The Most Perfect Thing". We will follow the unmade egg from fertilization to hatching. It starts with a discussion about the amazing eggs of guillemots, so variable in pattern and color that no one is equal to the other. The acclaimed ornithologist Tim Birkhead reveals intriguing and wonderful facts about these true wonders of nature. A very nice book!
Product information
Author: Tim Birkhead
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 130x200x20 mm
Weight: 262 g
Released: 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9781408851258
Language: English