Mia Posada - Guess What Is Growing Inside This Egg

GuessWhatIsGrowing ThisEgg To Nathan GuessWhatIsGrowing This egg sits snugly on its fathers feet. He warms it with his bodys heat. Under his feathered belly, its cozy and warm, Safe from the icy Antarctic storm. Canyouguesswhatisgrowinginsidethisegg? A penguin! This baby penguin, or chick, lives in Antarctica, one of the coldest, windiest places on Earth. When it is hatched, its mother returns from the sea to help care for it.

Now its father needs to hunt for food. He hasnt eaten in the two months that he has cared for the egg! The mother and father penguins take turns holding the little chick on their feet to keep it warm, and going to the sea to hunt for fish and squid to feed it. Once it grows its waterproof feathers, the chick will be able to swim and hunt on its own.

Can you guess what is growing inside these eggs? This mound of dirt and sticks piled high Makes a safe nest for these eggs to lie. Predators of the swamp had better keep back. This sharp- toothed mother will attack! These baby alligators will grow to be nine or more feet long.

They spend most of their time in the swamp water, floating on the surface or diving below like a submarine. They use their long tails as paddles to push themselves through the water. They hunt for birds, turtles, snakes, and fish to eat. Alligators cannot chew their food. They grab their prey with their strong jaws and swallow it whole.

Can you guess what is growing inside these eggs? Ducklings! As soon as their feathers are dry, they will be able to follow their mother to the nearby lake. Can you guess what is growing inside these eggs? Ducklings! As soon as their feathers are dry, they will be able to follow their mother to the nearby lake.

The brother and sister ducklings walk in a line, one after the other. Ducklings do not need swimming lessons they are born already knowing how to swim. With their webbed feet, they paddle through the water. Soon they learn to feed on worms, water plants, and insects just below the waters surface.

Their mother crawled from sea to land To bury these soft eggs in the sand. Canyouguesswhatisgrowinginsidetheseeggs? Sea turtles! The tiny baby turtles hatch under the sand.

They use their flippers to push themselves up to the surface of the beach. Leaving the nest at night, they must find their way to the water on their own. It is a dangerous journey as crabs and birds like to eat the tiny turtles. Once they have made it safely to the ocean, the baby turtles swim far out to sea and feed on small sea animals called plankton. As they grow, they begin to feed on larger things such as jelly- fish and seaweed.

This round sac of silk thread is packed full of tiny eggs. This round sac of silk thread is packed full of tiny eggs.

Their mother spun it with her eight long legs.

Canyouguesswhatisgrowinginsidetheseeggs? Spiders! Hundreds of baby spiders, called spiderlings, hatch from their eggs inside the egg sac. Then they tear open the sac and crawl out. Like their mother, the spiderlings have eight legs. They also have eight eyes, but they do not see very well. Each spiderling must find a new home.

It sends out a thread of silk from its body into the air and lets the wind catch it. The wind carries the tiny spiderling away until it lands in a new place where it will build its web. This is called parachuting. The spiders web traps insects for it to eat.