Yes a gecko has been found in a chicken egg. Here’s an article on it.
Someone call Tony Bourdain and have him prepare a new delicacy.
Geico ads… it’s amazing how they just keep finding new levels of penetration.
1.) First chicken to second chicken: “What crawled up inside YOU and died?”
2.) Maybe this can form the basis for some new insurance commercials
3.) Hey – I wonder if this can explain anything about Basilisk eggs? (The basilisk was supposed to be born of a lizard’s egg incubated by a chicken, or lain by a rooster, or some variation of that).
There were reported incidence of reptiles in chicken eggs before. I like that we have a case right now that shows the medieval myths might have a basis in an actual event.
This also might spark an entrepreneur to start selling real surprise eggs. A engagement ring in a chicken egg for the bride perhaps.
:eek:
:eek: :eek: Could be, especially if they find this is a not-a-one-time occurrence, but common enough to be the salmonella in eggs culprit. My mind, it is blown.
I think of that line as ridiculous. I think if it was happen enough to cause the salmonella, we’d have heard about Geckos in chickens from the processing plants.
Amphibians carry salmonella on their skin and can leave it behind on things that they touch (or that touch them), though. According to the docent at the zoo, anyhow. So perhaps they crawl into the cloacas occasionally, and most of them are smart or lucky enough to find their way back out again, but now they’ve infected the reproductive tract with salmonella, which gets into the eggs. Only the young/stupid/unlucky ones stay up there and get caught in the egg production and come out in eggs. (Note: this is all hypothesis, of course. I assume this is the sort of idea they’ll begin investigating, if the experts don’t already know about it.)
Only a small percentage of eggs test positive for salmonella inside the egg, as I understand it.
From the link:
“(Dr. Beaumont) believes the discovery is a world first and has handed the egg shell over to health authorities”
“What…you wanted the actuall egg to test? Well, I was hungry, and so…”
Nature keeps coming up with disgusting things I never knew about. Maybe I should have been a biologist; thought about it a lot as a child.
Who knows, maybe somebody will find a genuine fireproof salamander species to account for first-hand reports by people like Cellini. (Probably not.)
If it were me, eggs might just be off my menu permanently.
The percentage of eggs with salmonella is not always a small percentage. One report here. Geckos certainly can cause the contamination, but it can’t be the major source around the world.
PETA is calling for the head of the scientest that killed the gecko, and the head of the chicken’s owner for serious negligence.
Is it possible that the gecko and chicken were having sex?
I wonder which came first?
I’m sorry, but this had made me laugh and laugh. Still laughing, sorry…
I’m so ashamed I didn’t think of this.
(And this thread is the first time I ever came across the phrase “crawled up inside a chicken”. You just don’t hear that very often.)
if a gecko can crawl inside a chicken this way, who knows what else had managed to call the chicken home?
for some reason i’m imagining an infected gecko, host to baby overlords from OUTER SPACE which spends its alien incubation in birds before they return to their host, we homo sapiens. i mean, why else would anything want to crawl up a chicken chute? because it’s warm?!
Gecko will save you $500 on your dairy bill.
“Chooks”?
I think the important question here is: Why the hell are geckos crawling up chicken’s butts?