Seahorses

Coral Shrimp feed off of the little animals in the reef..

Why Do you have to be 18 to have an apple ID? Then why the hell the parental control with the apple ID on Ipod? This is the most ridiculous contradiction with technology, along with FACEBOOK rules. There is no reason for these goofy rules. If it is safe for the Adult, and most of the world is on facebook and computers then I think it should be KID ORIENTED as-well. GET REAL TECHNOLOGY

if you really wanna know...........................................................ahem..............................................it was found in Amsterdam carrying drugs to new Zealand.happy?

Yes they do to fight off enemies

They do it to have babies of course and to not be lonly without a child that they made

No, it is actually classified as a fish.

These unusual and fascinating creatures offer many surprises. They are fish, though with their bony rings, horselike heads, and curly, gripping tails, they don't look anything like other fish. Most sea horses are quite small, around 1.5 inches (4 centimeters) in length, though the largest of them can be nearly 12 inches long (30 centimeters). Scientists believe that sea horses mate with a single partner, a behavior called monogamy that is rare in the animal world. And, even more unusual, it is the male sea horse that gets "pregnant," carrying and nurturing the fertilized eggs in a pouch in his body. The female deposits the eggs in the male's body, and he provides oxygen and nutrients until the young are ready to hatch.

The sea horse population has been threatened in recent years by destruction of its habitat and by overfishing. Hundreds of thousands of sea horses are caught and sold each year to large aquariums and to people who simply like to collect unusual animals. Many more are sold to several countries in the Far East, where sea horses are believed to have medicinal value....

No, a stingray is a fish not a amphibian. They live in the oceans saltwater and there are many different species of them.

Yes, they are. Seahorses are truly unique, and not just because of their unusual equine shape. Unlike most other fish, they are monogamous and mate for life. Rarer still, they are among the only animal species on Earth in which the male bears the unborn young.

Found in shallow tropical and temperate waters throughout the world, these upright-swimming relatives of the pipefish can range in size from 0.6 inches (1.5 centimeters) to 14 inches (35 centimeters) long.

Male seahorses are equipped with a brood pouch on their ventral, or front-facing, side. When mating, the female deposits her eggs into his pouch, and the male fertilizes them internally. He carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch, then releases fully formed, miniature seahorses into the water.

Because of their body shape, seahorses are rather inept swimmers and can easily die of exhaustion when caught in storm-roiled seas. They propel themselves by using a small fin on their back that flutters up to 35 times per second. Even smaller pectoral fins located near the back of the head are used for steering.

They anchor themselves with their prehensile tails to sea grasses and corals, using their elongated snouts to suck in plankton and small crustaceans that drift by. Voracious eaters, they graze continually and can consume 3,000 or more brine shrimp per day.

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plenty of things- the females give the males eggs in which he "gets pregnant with" and fertilizes them inside his pouch- then he spews the eggs out as they hatch. seahorses can camouflage better than chameleons can and they also can switch to and from binocular vision and monocular vision

seahorses are cool!

under a full moon

COOL

Compared to most fish, seahorses are very slow swimmers, but they are excellent ambush hunters. They have prehensile tails so that they can anchor themselves to underwater plants and coral, a bit like a monkey would hang on to a tree branch to keep from falling. Once anchored, they stay very still so that they just look like part of the plant. Some species of seahorses can actually change color slightly, to camouflage themselves even better. Then all they need to do is stay very still and wait for tiny crustaceans, such as mysis shrimp to swim by so that they can suck them up with their long snouts and eat them (insects, such as the praying mantis use the same hunting technique when they camouflage themselves to look like twigs).

Part of the reason that they camouflage themselves is for protection from being attacked and eaten by larger, faster swimming fish. The keratin-based scales of the normal fish have evolved to be much thicker and harder in the seahorse for extra protection. It is more like armor than scales. The male seahorse has also developed a brood pouch to carry their partner's eggs so that they can protect them until they are born.

males have pouches while females don't. the pouches are for carrying the female's eggs.

3 to 4 inches long

The male of the species carries the young nd gives birth to them, not the female

Seahorses have snouts so that they can probe into small nooks and crannies when searching for food. This means if their prey is hiding then the seahorses snout can squeeze into the hole or crack, and they can eat their dinner. It also helps because when they find food they suck it up through their snouts like a vacuum cleaner. Their snouts can expand if their prey is larger than the snout. They are not able to chew and have to disintergrate the food as they eat it.

It depends on the fish. tropical fish need warm water, goldfish and koi like colder temperatures. You have to know what kind of fish it is to really answer this one. Ask the people you buy the fish from what temp it needs.

Witi Ihimaera wrote the seahorse and the reef to highlight another Maori issue. Maori have always been protectors of the land, they look after Papa, and they look after the moana and everything in them. They never take to much, and always have held respect for the land. When European Pakeha came to New Zealand, Maori no longer had as much control over the land. They could not protect the moana from becoming poisoned or their forests being cut down. During the 1900s New Zealand under went a huge change. New Zealand became more industrialized, globalized. It caused a huge cultural clash, that is still happening today, because of the vastly different values held by each culture. In the book, Ihimaera illustrated the cultural clash by the erecting of the warning sign, and in the conclusion, the Maori culture was the seahorse, and the effluent European ideals and values (of globalisation and industrialisation), the seahorse was getting poisoned by them and there were no means of escape.

warm blooded animals, or endothermic animals, are animals that keep a constant body temperature. Cold blooded animals, or ectothermic animals, are animals who can't keep a constant bodt temperature, an their body temperature changes with the air around them.

I'm sorry if this is not detailed enough

No, they are tropical fish but can live in cold water aquariums if you keep the water around 74 degrees. The Plecostomus will die in water below 60' but don't push them, They are meant for tropical aquariums.

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Yes. Seahorses are fish and, like all vertebrates, have bilateral symmetry. This means they have symmetry across one plane (known as the sagittal plane, and directly down the centre of their body), which means one side of their body approximately mirrors the other side.