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egg incubation
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the process by which certain oviparous (egg-laying) animals hatch their eggs
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Encyclopedic overview
A female mallard duck incubates her eggs
Egg incubation is the process by which an egg, of oviparous (egg-laying) animals, develops an embryo within the egg, after the egg's formation and ovipositional release. Egg incubation is done under favorable environmental conditions, possibly by brooding and hatching the egg.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “egg incubation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.