Talk:Harpy/@comment-38531539-20190315082722/@comment-27950421-20190315190516

I understand your confusion Lori, but your statement isn't really accurate.

Unless it's a fish or amphibian who release the eggs amd fertilize them externally, egg laying animals spend a period of time gravid (egg layer version of pregnant). This is required because the egg structure itself needs time to develop before it is layed.

Most images of mamono eggs hatching shows a child that is nearly at the toddler stage of development, so the egg needs to be large enough to house such a child and that will take some time to grow.

Now it will still be faster than an actual pregnancy. An egg laying mamono would lay her eggs long before a live bearing mamono will give birth. I imagine it would take about a month or two for an egg to be ready to be laid. (Though given the size of the egg... that's gonna take some DE fueled, fairy tiered stretching...)

However I will say that due to how developed the hatchling is when they do hatch, it likely takes several years to finish gestation. Once the child is hatched though she will be fully ready to go out and play with her mammalian peers who had spent the time as a screaming poop machine.

So overall, reptiles superior.