The reason why the Tharks destroyed the unhatched eggs was so that the offspring might not breed others who would also take longer than the normal period of five years to hatch. Because Mars was a dying planet, the Tharks employed harsh measures of survival. Along these lines, whenever one tribe of Tharks would encounter the incubation mounds of another tribe, they would destroy all the eggs. As for the ceremony in which Tharks would chase and capture the fleeing offspring, the custom was no Thark would know who their parents were or who their children were. When a female captures a baby, she takes the responsibility for raising in on the behalf of the community. This, along with the egg situation, was a harsh reality of their approach to survival as a species.

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