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| The "eggless" chick has survived, but the mother has died |
Do “O Grito do Bicho”
Leia a tradução feita pela Áurea, fuçadora mor de
curiosidades... kakakaka...
"Uma galinha do Sri-Lanka deu à luz um pintinho sem pôr
o ovo, proprondo uma nova versão à velha questão sobre quem nasceu primeiro, se
"o ovo ou a galinha?" Em lugar de botar um ovo para ser incubado pelo
calor externo de seu corpo, uma galinha teve um ovo desenvolvidpo dentro de seu
próprio corpo por 21 dias que foi 'chocado' dentro do seu útero. Passado o
tempo de incubação, o ovo rachou e o pintinho 'nasceu' perfeitamente normal e
saudável, mas a sua mãe, morreu."
Da BBC/ 19 April 2012 Last updated at 11:08 GMT
A Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first.
Instead of passing out of the hen's body and being incubated outside, the egg was incubated in the hen for 21 days and then hatched inside the hen.
The chick is fully formed and healthy, although the mother has died.
The government veterinary officer in the area said he had never seen anything like it before.
PR Yapa, the chief veterinary officer of Welimada, where it took place, examined the hen's carcass.
He found that the fertilised egg had developed within the hen's reproductive system, but stayed inside the hen's body until it hatched.
A post-mortem conducted on the hen's body concluded that it died of internal wounds.
The BBC's Charles Haviland in Colombo says that the story has made headlines in Sri Lanka, with the Sri Lankan Daily Mirror's concluding: "The chicken came first; not the egg."
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