| The young pheasant emerging in this sequence follows the pattern of nearly all hatchlings. With the help of its egg tooth, a small projection on the end of the beak that falls off shortly after hatching, the chick pecks a crack around the circumference of the shell. The most time-consuming part of the process behind it, the chick hooks its feet into the crack and pushes the shell fragments apart. Within one minute, first its head, and then its body, are free of the shell that protected it during development and incubation. |
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