Juvenile .
So many parallels.
But as far as birds go. The chickens I used to raise did the same. It took a while before they learned to fertilize . The females just laid and laid.
The next batch will have a higher percent chance of hatching.
It will go as nature plans . The long leg chickens will thrive if the juvenile of our species can keep from killing them.
If we go by the present of rude posts on this thread I worry that it will be a harder strugel than nature intende. It seems mankinds stupidity will be harder to overcome than anything nature can throw at them.
I for one find the birds so interesting and had thebopertunity to come face to face with mature birds in Colorado zoo. The thought I had was if I were equipped with nothing other than my own hands and in a fight with one protecting eggs it would be a hard hard fight. They are big and have built in defenses that frankly even a raccoon would not survive. Un like my chickens who lost half there populations till I got involved with night vision and suppressed 22 cal .
I for one hope to see more birds reintroduced ASAP. The sooner the better. As winter is comming.