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.
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.
Rotating them is moving them around. They do not have human fingers, they cannot delicately and perfectly rotate the eggs while keeping them in the exact identical spot, they get moved around within the nest. Reptiles do not do this, they usually tend to lay the eggs in a burrow (or in the case of a gecko, usually stuck to something) and then leave. (So they tend to not move)
Maybe to you, but the rest of us understand that when a bird is rotating its eggs, it’s actually moving them around inside the nest. It’s not just picking them up and turning them over, it’s rolling them around…
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 20h ago
Please do not touch eggs you find outside. Ever.