Male seahorse

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Male seahorses give birth to babies.Seahorses are the only animals in the entire animal kingdom in which the male, not the female gives birth and cares for their young! The female seahorse deposits the eggs into the male's small pouch like a kangaroo where the eggs are fertilized and where the baby seahorses grow until it is time for them to be born.

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Let's finish with two photos of seahorses. The top image (©Lazaro Ruda, via animals, animals, animals) shows a male seahorse giving birth. In sea horses, the male become pregnant. Their mating involves the female inserting her oviduct into the male’s brooding pouch. She does this several times for short intervals to avoid exhaustion... The eggs are fertilized and hatch in the male’s pouch. The size of the sea horse brood varies within sea horse species. Some species’ broods are as large as…

Yesterday I asked Trish what animal I should feature in my newsletter. She didn't hesitate. She reminded me of the time we took our kids out snorke ling in the wide, shallow bay at Cape San Blas,...

According to a new explanation of seahorse shape, those distinctive S-curve bodies let them reach further than straight-bodied ancestors. Compared to tube-shaped pipefish, their closest relatives, seahorses extend their snouts an extra 30 percent. The difference is only a few millimeters, but for animals with a strike range of a centimeter or two, it’s a […]

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