Do male seahorses actually give birth?

Answer 1

because the female lays the egg in the males pouch and the male carys it weeks before the eggs hatch
Male seahorses have a pouch on their stomachs. The female deposits up to 2,000 eggs in that pouch. Seahorses are unique in this; no other male fish or animals bears young. Zoologists think it evolved to help seahorses survive.
Male seahorse do not give birth.The female seahorse lay eggs in the pouch of the male seahorse.The male seahorse carries the eggs until they hatch and swims out of the pouch of the male seahorse.That is why people think male seahorse give birth
They don't really. The female deposits the eggs in a pouch on the male's belly. He then carries the eggs until they hatch, and tiny, tiny seahorses swim out into the ocean.
He doesn't "give birth". The female lays eggs in a pouch which the male has on the front of his belly. When the eggs hatch, the babies are released from the pouch and go on their way.

Answer 2

Female seahorses lay eggs, which they dposit in a pouch on the male seahorse's belly. The male then carries the eggs until they hatch, after which he releases tiny, tiny seahorse babies into the ocean.

As to why -i don't think there's any single good answer to that.

Protecting the eggs means more of them will hatch w/o being eaten. Splitting the task means the female can begin preparing for the next round of egg laying sooner.

but it works for them and that's the main thing.

Answer 3

The female produces the eggs in her body. They are passed to the male's pouch during mating where he inseminates them and they are incubated. Over time they developed the pouch to protect the eggs until they are born. As for why the males adapted the pouch rather than the females, the male reproductive organs are mostly internal in fish (if you look male fish, you don't really see a visible penis). If the female had the pouch he wouldn't be able to reach in and inseminate them, so they would have needed to develop a way to pass them back to the female after insemination. Having the male develop the pouch made it so that the eggs are only vulnerable to attack from predatory fish and other dangers once rather than twice. Since fish don't have an actual penis, it was simpler to have the male develop a pouch than it would have been to completely change the anatomy of the male sexual organs.

Answer 4

The male seahorse is given the eggs from the female seahorse, stores them in s special pouch and guards them until the eggs hatch.

Answer 5

male carries the babies because they are stronger and can pretect the babies

Answer 6

yes