# Will egg yolks harm the local wildlife? Am I inviting snakes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 17, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-egg-yolks-harm-the-local-wildlife-am-i-inviting-snakes/671492 "2013-10-17T16:06:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-egg-yolks-harm-the-local-wildlife-am-i-inviting-snakes/671492/21 "2013-10-17T23:21:23Z")
Omelet you finish, but emus have the greatest eggs of all time! ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-egg-yolks-harm-the-local-wildlife-am-i-inviting-snakes/671492/22 "2013-10-17T23:31:35Z")
> [@Tante\_Dillie](#): > > I would agree with you, DCnDC, except that six yolks are a pretty substantial weight for insects. One or two, yeah, maybe but not all six. It’d take the army ants that Charlton Heston faced in _Naked Jungle_ to carry off six heavy yolks night after night. I once put a mouse carcass on my stone wall (I caught it in a spring trap in the basement) for whatever wild animal wanted it, then trained a video cam on it for hours. Usually a fox (at night) or crow (by day) grabs this delicacy, but playing back the video, I was surprised to see that the mouse moved, slowly, but surely, about a foot, until it fell off the wall. It was the work of several insects. Insects unite! > [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Omelet you finish, but emus have the greatest eggs of all time! Eggzactly! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-egg-yolks-harm-the-local-wildlife-am-i-inviting-snakes/671492.md?page=1)