system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Would a monitor lizard (or other egg loving creature) prefer to eat a fresh laid egg with the yolk or one that was nearly ready to hatch? which would be more valuable as food?
gpt
Building complex molecules to make a critter would be anabolism, which takes energy to do and some is lost as heat.  Once eaten, these complex molecules would be catabolized, which takes some energy on the monitor lizards part, like making digestive enzymes, stomach churning, HCl, etc.  It would be more energy efficient to eat a freshly laid egg.