User talk:Jonas2609

Lamia vs Harpy Ovulation
Unlike birds and thus by extension Harpies, snakes are extremely unlikely to ovulate unless they have copulated. Snakes also exhibit signs of pregnancy despite laying eggs and even those that do bare live offspring do so by holding the eggs internally until they hatch.

The other issue is that wild birds will also only rarely lay unfertilized eggs and/or more eggs than they incubate. This is not because breeding triggers ovulation for them, but because it is rather rare to be so short of male birds that they can’t copulate with whereas we intentionally keep males away from domestic egg production chicken/duck flocks which were also bred to lay far more eggs than they could ever incubate. Since Harpies need the males of other species to reproduce, it's possible that they are just more inclined to lay unfertilizeds eggs than Lamia because they ovulate more often. Chimera-gui (talk) 02:45, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Ok, I'm sorry. I admit in retrospect, this trivia point seemed a bit speculative. Apparently I knew too little. This is particularly difficult with biological information; It cannot be compared directly with the manga. Jonas2609, 05:42, 29.12.2021.
 * It's fine, it's generally better to not assume biology that has been confirmed yet anyway since nature is already weird. Chimera-gui (talk) 07:35, 29 December 2021 (UTC)