About twenty minutes later, she is ready to deposit her fertilised eggs.
The fertilised eggs are then embedded in the pouch wall.
The next generation comes from the fertilised eggs of the previous generation.
Between 250,000 and 3,000,000 fertilised eggs are held under the female's abdomen for up to eight months until they hatch.
John Rock was the first to extract an intact fertilised egg.
There is no difference in the food value of fertilised and unfertilised eggs.
They probably arise by the nearly complete separation of a single fertilised egg into two parts.
Each egg sac contains about 70 to 90 fertilised eggs.
Then the female lays her fertilised eggs and provisions them.
The fertilised eggs are not then laid but remain inside the female's oviduct.