Lord Howe Island Stick Insect hatching

In a world first, zookeeper Rohan Cleave captured the amazing hatching process of a critically endangered Lord Howe Island Stick Insect at Melbourne Zoo. The eggs incubate for over 6 months and until now the hatching process has never been witnessed. If you didn't see it you wouldn't believe it could fit in that egg!

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+17 1. kazannova commented 12 years ago

dmn i cant sleep now
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+22 2. loadrunner commented 12 years ago

Why do we need expensive special effect for movies, we have better stuff in real life .:)
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+9 3. Premtm commented 12 years ago

Wonderful nature.....Bravo photographer..... :)
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+6 4. Yours88 commented 12 years ago

So discusting, yet awesome :S
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-5 5. Bumfighter commented 12 years ago

Mother Insect: Jimmy your big enough to get your own home now!
Child Insect (Jimmy): OK ma! :P
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+1 6. cyberdevil commented 12 years ago

I still can't believe it. :O
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+40 7. dushan commented 12 years ago

file insect.zip extracted :D
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+4 8. Cyrille commented 12 years ago

"Damn, my antenna is STUCK !"

"And my legs too!?"
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+5 9. annieaxe commented 12 years ago

I want some of those eggs. My boyfriend would scream like a little girl when they start hatching.
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+1 10. banzemanga commented 12 years ago

Some inefficiency evolution way of hatching. Legs coming last. And they are stuck too! Well, at least it is able to walk after birth. Unlike us humans which takes a year for us to be able to walk.
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+1 11. xmadxxx commented 12 years ago

dont look like a cute baby to me :|
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+3 12. cranky commented 12 years ago

Somebody call men in black.
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+5 13. Spartan118 commented 12 years ago

This has just destroyed my understanding of the Laws of Physics....
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+3 14. cameramaster commented 12 years ago

With compression techniques like that who needs winzip?
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+2 15. fugitivegoose commented 12 years ago

These guys ought to consider cutting bigger holes for themselves...
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0 16. igorot commented 12 years ago

contortionist stick insect :)
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+1 17. wigglle commented 12 years ago

Fuck...why is hard for this to get its legs out...
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0 18. LQoQK commented 12 years ago

@17 it takes you six months to start crawling

So is that an Egg or some kind of teleport machine from another world?
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0 19. Sizzlik (admin) commented 12 years ago

#17 same reason its hard to get your legs out of bed in the morning..you simply dont want to..but have to.. =(
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+2 20. wongraven commented 12 years ago

IT WANTS TO LIVE !!!
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0 21. RandurSource commented 12 years ago

I have stick insects (other type) and they lay eggs all day long. The eggs are just 1mm across. I never saw one hatch (about 3 months incubation), but now I know how it works. Thanks uploader.