Presents the title work, a pictorial introduction to animals that lay eggs, including chickens and other birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few mammals; and includes discussion of the question of which came first--the chicken or the egg, a visit to an incubator room, an introduction to a turtle biologist, and reviews of related books.
Presents the title work, a pictorial introduction to animals that lay eggs, including chickens and other birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few mammals; and includes discussion of the question of which came first--the chicken or the egg, a visit to an incubator room, an introduction to a turtle biologist, and reviews of related books.
In this Reading Rainbow presentation, LeVar takes a look at the different kinds of animals that hatch from eggs. He begins by visiting a hatchery and finding out how chicks hatch. Then he joins a biologist in Florida to watch as loggerhead turtles lay eggs on the sandy beach.
A pictorial introduction to the animals that lay eggs, including chickens as well as other birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few mammals.
LeVar visits a chicken farm and provides viewers with information about how baby chicks are kept safe until their final moment of hatching, and discovers majestic loggerhead sea turtles emerging from the ocean to lay and bury their eggs in the sand on a beach in Florida.
A pictorial introduction to the animals that lay eggs, including chickens as well as other birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects, and even a few mammals.
