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Are male seahorses pregnant

Updated: 8/18/2019
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No, not at all. The males provide the females with their sperm so that the females can have fertilized eggs. After that, the females hand all their eggs over to the males for safekeeping. So the male is not pregnant, but holds all the eggs, and appears to be pregnant.

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