Male seahorses undergo pregnancy and give birth to their sons and daughters.
Seahorses, which range from less than an inch to a foot (one to 30 centimeters) in length, have evolved a series of unusual adaptations—a prehensile tail for clinging to underwater vegetation, a tubelike mouth for sucking in tiny crustaceans, and protective bony plates in their skin.
The male seahorse has a pouch on its stomach in which to carry babies—as many as 2,000 at a time. A pregnancy lasts from 10 to 25 days, depending on the species.
The reproductive process begins when a male and a female seahorse do daily pre-dawn dances, intertwining their tails and swimming together. Eventually they engage in a true courtship dance, which can last as long as eight hours. It ends with the female depositing her eggs in the male's pouch.
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsHCqrrU-Gk
Know more:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0614_seahorse_recov.html
http://www.theseahorsetrust.org/seahorse-facts.aspx
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ReplyDeleteJust like a woman....can you hold this for me, next thing you know you are paying support on 2k kids.
ReplyDeleteIt's a really cool process to watch. We currently have 4 seahorses in our tank, though they have not bred yet. Our older pair who died last year gave birth twice, though none survived. Maybe this time around they will.
ReplyDeletewow this is sooo eyegasm to me Corina Marinescu XD
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether to think that is cool or weird
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