"that may explain your success is that they may absorb their yolk and assimilate quicker than we suspect? Is it possible that when we wait for the first shed they are actually too weak to feed or their systems have shut down due to lack of nutrition too late? Hmmm...."

As interesting as all that may sound,...I would think there is just no way possible that most would immediately be successful in finding meals in the wild right after they hatched. And even then many corn hatchlings can go for months on end and then start to feed with more than enough strength to go onto thrive absolutely fine afterwards.

To be honest, to find a definite correlation to any of this would take many years, with a very stringent way to repeatedly duplicate the "control" method with many different clutches, and especially the exact SAME pairings of parents back and forth many times under the EXACT same conditions year after year to come to any real conclusion though, ie., basically laboratory conditions.

Now, don't get me wrong here, it is very interesting I must say, and I am definitely not knocking what has been observed so far with this. But definitively proving this to be the case is tough to acomplish to say the very least. Lots of strict repeditiveness involved here.


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