Why solitary reptiles lay eggs in communal nests
Thursday, September 3, 2009 - 09:21
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Reptiles are not known to be the most social of creatures. But when it comes to laying eggs, female reptiles can be remarkably communal, often laying their eggs in the nests of other females. New research in the September issue of The Quarterly Review of Biology suggests that this curiously out-of-character behavior is far more common in reptiles than was previously thought.