Bizarre, egg-burying birds hatch at Bronx Zoo
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 17:01
in Biology & Nature
By Megan Gannon, LiveScienceThree maleo chicks have been hatched at the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo in New York, where keepers recreated the conditions of the birds' bizarre incubation.While most birds sit on their eggs to keep their unhatched young warm, maleos bury their large eggs in underground nests, letting heat from geothermal sources, the sun or decaying vegetation do the w...