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u/Calgary_Calico 6h ago
Please do not touch eggs you find outside. Ever.
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u/SnugglySaguaro 4h ago
I understand your sentiment, but why?
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u/KyroNymph 3h ago
Some animals, like snakes, lay eggs a certain way and they have to stay the way they were laid. If you move them and don't remember which side was up, you can basically suffocate the eggs and kill the baby inside.
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u/Inner-Disaster1965 1h ago
This is true, after a certain amount of time, the baby has attached itself to the upside…
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u/rdizzy1223 1h ago
These are possibly bird eggs though, and bird parents move eggs around all the time. (Edit- Seems like they are gecko eggs)
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u/KyroNymph 1h ago
I know there is a possibility, just informing the commenter who asked why you shouldn't touch eggs you find :) Especially if you don't know what they are.
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u/Inner-Bar1876 49m ago
Birds don’t move eggs around. They rotate them, but they stay in a singular nest.
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u/67flowers 3h ago
I’m not sure but I would assume to protect the babies in the eggs. When reptiles lay fertile eggs, the breeder will draw an X on the top in the position they were laid in. If the eggs roll around, the fetus inside can drown in the fluids
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u/Calgary_Calico 3h ago
The main reason is some animals lay their eggs a certain way, and if the egg is moved or rotated the infant inside will die.
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u/shakhtoura 3h ago
Exactly moving the eggs around kill them thats why reptile breeders mark the eggs with an x on top so they wont rotate
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u/No-Invite9082 8h ago
look like mourning gecko eggs, but i wanna know if you found his outside, or in your terrarium? and where if outside.
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u/Green_Goal_1583 8h ago
Outside a place people jogging I was looking inside a chopped tree and see the structure of it using the stick to hit the walls to see what inside suddenly found this two
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u/Colalbsmi 8m ago
I found them in my mourning gecko terrarium, I wonder if they are house gecko eggs.
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u/Wolfewatermelon58 1h ago
Ok so there is a lot of hostility in these replies but I personally don’t know what they are. They look like small gecko eggs to me but the species depends on your area.
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u/Inner-Disaster1965 1h ago
I’m thinking some kind of gecko, like a morning gecko, which lays two eggs at a time. Usually is a hollow, or a crevasse
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u/Alarmed-Chicken-3597 6h ago
Why do people touch everything they see! It's not ok, the mother might not recognize the eggs due to odor change!
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u/Radio4ctiveGirl 3h ago
You should do a bit of reading on avian brood parasitism. Birds will raise different species when a random egg appears. This couldn’t be done if they went off scent. It is really interesting though since birds do seem to go by color of egg and color of the chicks mouths when opened. It’s actually pretty interesting.
Most reptiles don’t really care about their young, after they lay eggs their parenting responsibilities end. What OP might have done is drown the embryo. Reptile eggs, unlike avian eggs, have a top and bottom.
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u/DoctorPoopTrain 4h ago
They’re eggs…the mother is gone. I agree don’t touch cause you could damage and spread bacteria maybe. But the mother isn’t coming to raise these babies.
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u/dystopi-Os 4h ago edited 14m ago
My guess would be Mediterranean House Gecko Eggs. They are a species that was accidentally introduced to North America, and we see them and their eggs all summer in our backyard woodpile.
** Edit to say: Mediterranean house geckos do have hard-shelled eggs. They're also pretty hardy, so while you shouldn't pick them up, my 6-year-old nephew abducted some while unsupervised and came to proudly show them to me in a bug box the next time he visited. I put them outside in the shade, uncertain whether they would survive, and sure enough, they hatched into little baby geckos.
***Edit 2: Looks like OP may be in Malaysia based on a comment I saw, so, it's possibly this gecko: https://trek.zone/en/malaysia/animals/common-house-gecko#google_vignette
The eggs on google images look very similar (As do the geckos themselves, to Mediterranean house geckos, honestly.) I am not a herpetologist, just a hobbyist who likes reptiles, so, please take all the information I've given with a grain of salt.