What are facts about a seahorse?

Answer 1

-Seahorses gained international protection on May 15, 2004 -What do South American Spider Monkeys, Ringtail Opossums and seahorses have in common? They all have prehensile tails. -Seahorses are members of the Teleost suborder, or bony fish. -Seahorses usually live in the tropics or along temperate coasts. -The average height of a full-grown sea horse is 2-8 inches.

Seahorses also vary in color, including orange, red, yellows, grey, and greens. -Seahorses can come in patterns like "zebra stripes" and spots. -Seahorses change color to blend in with their surroundings. -Seahorses feed on small living animals such as daphnia, cyclops, larvae of water insects, or mysids. -Seahorses like to swim in pairs linked by their tales. -Seahorses cannot curl their tails backwards. -Seahorses belong to the vertabra group, meaning they have an interior skeleton. -The small dorsal fins propel it through the water in an upright position, while it beats them back and forth, almost as fast as a humming bird flapping its wings. -Seahorses usually mate under a full moon. -The pectoral fins control turning and steering. When resting, the seahorse curls its tail around seaweed, to keep it from floating away... -Seahorse natural predators are crabs, tuna, skates and rays. -Seahorses are loyal and mate for life. -During mating, the Seahorses utter musical sounds. -The female deposits eggs into the male's small pouch, and then leaves. Out of the entire animal kingdom, these are the only animals in which the male has babies! -Twenty-five million seahorses a year are now being traded around the world - 64 percent more than in the mid-1990s - and environmentalists are increasingly concerned that the booming trade in seahorses is putting the creatures at risk.