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Seahorses
Seahorses are named for their equine-like head and prefer to live in sheltered areas such as coral reefs. Seahorses are one of the few animal breeds where the male gives birth rather than the female.
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Seahorses are unique. They have long surly tails that they wrap around stuff to hold on in the current. Seahorses are one of a few animals that the men have the babies.
Is a seahorse a marsupial mammal?
No.
Seahorses are fish, not mammals. Although the male seahorse has a brood pouch for carrying the eggs, this feature alone does not make the seahorse a marsupial.
Yes, seahorses have gills. They have gills to get oxygen from the water so they can breathe.
What colors are on a sea horse?
Seahorses vary in color, depending on species and their environment. Some are orange, pink, green, brown, or even a combination of colors.
There are a variety of different seahorses that range in size from about half an inch to 14 inches. The smallest seahorse in the United States is the pygmy seahorse, which is only about an inch tall.
Where does a female woodlouse keep her eggs?
A female woodlouse keeps her eggs in a pouch on the underside of her body.
How does a seahorse reproduce?
Seahorses will court one another for several days before mating. When they mate, the female deposits up to 1,500 eggs into the males pouch located on one side of the body. The male then carries the eggs for up to 45 days and the babies come out of the pouch fully developed. Once they leave the pouch the baby seahorses are on their own.
Sea dragon internal or external fertilisation?
Seadragons are like seahorses in that it is the male who carries the eggs The female will deposit up to 250 eggs (bright pink) onto the males tail where the eggs attach themselves to a "brood patch" where they will stay for the next 6 to 8 weeks where they receive oxygen from "cups" on this brood patch and they become "fertilised" which is external
Yes but not as smart as dogs.
Well first of all people say all these other animals are smart, when i they is tricks, but no one ever thinks about how much a horse has to remember, not only do they learn regular tricks but all the stuff they have to knbow in riding and showing and all they different commands and disciplines that not many other animals have to do, ud realize how smkart they really are
Most seahorses that are sold to for aquariums are bred in captivity so it doesn't impact the wild seahorses as much. Wild seahorses are also harder to keep alive because they are pickier about their food,
The other trade that uses seahorses is Chinese medicine. I don't know for sure, if those are wild caught or captive bred but I would imagine that captive breeding would be more cost effective.
What is the name for a sea horse?
A Seahorse Is Called a Seahorse Because Its head is shaped liked a seahorse and it move like a seahorse
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If you want a simple answer - then the sea.
A little more detailed, generally you'd find them in warmer and shallower waters near the coastline. They're often found in tropical and subtropical reef waters all over Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans.
What do you call a baby seahorse?
A baby seahorse is called a fry. This is the same as other fish, so it's not unique to seahorses.
What the difference between a seahorse and a horse?
A seahorse is small and lives in the ocean. A horse is bigger and lives on land. Male seahorses give birth to their baby seahorses. Female horses give birth to their young.
How do seahorses talk to each other?
Seahorses actually do make noise. It sounds very similar to the sound of lips smacking together, and they make this noise during courtship and feeding time. Seahorses also dance together with their mate every morning. This ritual confirms that the partner is still alive, synchronizes the mating cycle, and reinforces their bond as a pair.
There are 32 species of seahorses known and here thery are:
Big Belly Seahorse- hippocampus abdominalis
West Africa Seahorse- hippocampus algiricus
Narrow Bellied Seahorse- hippocampus angustus
Barbour's Seahorse- hippocampus barbouri
Pygmy Seahorse- hippocampus bargibanti
Reunion Seahorse- hippocampus borbonensis
Short Headed Seahorse- hippocampus camelopardalis
Knysna Seahorse- hippocampus capensis
Tiger Tail Seahorse- hippocampus comes
Crowned Seahorse- hippocampus coronatus
Lined Seahorse- hippocampus erectus
Fisher's Seahorse- hippocampus fisheri
Sea Pony- hippocampus fuscus
Long Snouted Seahorse- hippocampus guttulatus
Short Snouted Seahorse- hippocampus hippocampus
Thorny Seahorse- hippocampus histrix
Giant Seahorse- hippocampus ingens
Jayakar's Seahorse- hippocampus jayakari
Great Seahorse- hippocampus kelloggi
Spotted Seahorse- hippocampus kuda
Lichtenstein's Seahorse- hippocmapus lichentensteinii
Bullneck Seahorse- hippocampus minotaur
Japanese Seahorse- hippocampus mohnikei
Slender Seahorse- hippocampus reidi
Dhiho's Seahorse- hippocampus sindonis
Hedge Hog Seahorse- hippocampus spinosissimus
West Austrailian Seahorse- hippocampus subelongatus
Longnose Seahorse- hippocampus trimaculatus
White's Seahorse- hippocampus whitei
Zebra Seahorse- hippocampus zebra
Dwarf Seahorse- hippocampus zosterae
Seahorses are marine fish belonging to the genus Hippocampus of the family Syngnathidae, which also includes pipefish. They are found in temperate and tropical waters all over the world.
Seahorses range in size from 16 mm (the recently discovered Hippocampus denise[2]) to 35 cm. Seahorses and pipefishes are notable for being the only species in which males become "pregnant".[3]
The seahorse is a true fish, with a dorsal fin located on the lower body and pectoral fins located on the head near their gills. Some species of seahorse are partly transparent and are rarely seen in pictures.
Seahorse populations have been endangered in recent years by overfishing. The seahorse is used in traditional Chinese herbology, and as many as 20 million seahorses may be caught each year and sold for this purpose.[4]
Import and export of seahorses has been controlled under CITES since May 15, 2004.
Sea dragons are close relatives of seahorses but have bigger bodies and leaf-like appendages which enable them to hide among floating seaweed or kelp beds. Seahorses and sea dragons feed on larval fishes and amphipods, such as small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids ("sea lice"), sucking up their prey with their small mouths. Many of these amphipods feed on red algae that thrives in the shade of the kelp forests where the sea dragons live.
Reproduction
Seahorses reproduce in an unusual way: the male becomes pregnant. Most seahorse species' pregnancies lasts approximately two to three weeks.
Hatched offspring are independent of their parents. Some spend time developing among the ocean plankton. At times, the male seahorse may try to consume some of the previously released offspring. Other species (H. zosterae) immediately begin life as sea-floor inhabitants (benthos).
Seahorses are generally monogamous, though several species (H. abdominalis among them) are highly gregarious. In monogamous pairs, the male and female will greet one another with courtship displays in the morning and sometimes in the evening to reinforce their pair bond. They spend the rest of the day separate from each other hunting for food.
As pets
While many aquarium hobbyists keep seahorses as pets, seahorses collected from the wild tend to fare poorly in a home aquarium. They will eat only live foods such as brine shrimp and are prone to stress in an aquarium, which lowers the efficiency of their immune systems and makes them susceptible to disease.
In recent years, however, captive breeding of seahorses has become increasingly widespread. These seahorses survive better in captivity, and they are less likely to carry diseases. These seahorses will accept frozen foods such as mysid shrimp, and they do not experience the shock and stress of being taken out of the wild and placed in a small aquarium. Although captive-bred seahorses are more expensive, they survive better than wild seahorses, and take no toll on wild populations.
Seahorses should be kept in an aquarium to themselves, or with compatible tank-mates. Seahorses are slow feeders, and in an aquarium with fast, aggressive feeders, the seahorses will be edged out in the competition for food. Special care should be given to ensure that all individuals obtain enough food at feeding times.
Seahorses can co-exist with many species of shrimp and other bottom-feeding creatures. Fish from the goby family also make good tank-mates. Some species are especially dangerous to the slow-moving seahorses and should be avoided completely: eels, tangs, triggerfish, squid, octopus, and sea anemones.
Animals sold as "freshwater seahorses" are usually the closely related pipefish, of which a few species live in the lower reaches of rivers. The supposed true "freshwater seahorse" called Hippocampus aimei was not a real species, but a name sometimes used for individuals of Barbour's seahorse and Hedgehog seahorse. The latter is a species commonly found in brackish waters, but not actually a freshwater fish.
Other adaptations
A seahorse has highly mobile eyes to watch for predators and prey without moving its body. Like the leafy sea dragon, it also has a long snout with which it sucks up its prey. Its fins are small because it must move through thick water vegetation. The seahorse has a long, prehensile tail which it will curl around any support such as seaweed to prevent being swept away by currents
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Think about this for a moment. In the animal kingdom it is mostly the male that competes against other males for a female partner. For example, many male birds have bright colours and fancy plumage to attract a female partner. Males in some other groups have large tusks or horns to show strength and their ability to protect the female and her young. Now in the seahorse world, things are a little differently so we thought. Since it is the male that becomes pregnant and gives birth to the live baby seahorses, it would seem logical that the female seahorses compete amongst themselves for male partners to care for their eggs. Well, that is what we thought. However, research has shown that it is STILL the males that compete for females. When male seahorses want to impress a female, they have tail pulling competitions, dragging each other around on the bottom of the seabed. They also snap at each other with their snouts and wrestle with each other using their long curved necks. They also display their pouches to the prospective female by opening and closing them, filling their pouches with water and expelling it with force, to show the fitness of the pouch for the birth process. So, in a nutshell. Male seahorses compete with each other to become pregnant for three weeks (during which time they cannot move around to search for the best food), go through 72 hours of labour and exhausting final contractions to release up to 200 baby seahorses. During this process the natural colour of the male seahorse drains from his body and he becomes white and pasty looking. The experience (yes, we have it on film) looks painful and I cannot imagine that he would want to experience a baby seahorse birth again. But, after a very short time, sometimes only hours, the male starts showing off his pouch, begging to be pregnant again. Seahorses are thought to have evolved at least 40 million years ago and have survived from ancient times with only very small changes in body structure or organ function. They are unusual fish that have captured the imagination of artists, writers and poets, being found in the mythology, legends, folklore and superstitions of almost every country in the world. In fact some people still believe that these endearing creatures exist only in fables and children's stories. The fact is however, that these creatures are just as real as the threats that they face in our world today. Seahorses are unique in appearance, resembling an amalgamation of body parts taken from numerous animals: a horse-like head, a monkey-like prehensile tail, chameleon-like eyes and insect-like body armour, but they are, however a peculiar species of fish equipped with a backbone, (unusual grape-like) gills, swim bladder and fins. The scales of the seahorse have over time fused to form the locust-like exoskeleton.The seahorses mate monogamously for the entire breeding season. Every day the pair will come together in a ritualistic flirtatious dance to reinforce their connection. While the male is pregnant he will move very little, which for a seahorse means not more than a few centimetres. The male will eat food that happens to be in the area while the female will roam about in search of food. Regardless of this separation however, the female will always come back to the male to perform their daily ritual of entwining their tails and spiralling to the surface in a dance of celebration.
This ritual helps keep the pair synchronized reproductively. If a mate is removed or dies, it will take weeks to find a new mate, that is, if it is able to at all! This is because seahorses live in isolated groups and move very little. It is thus extremely difficult to find another seahorse in the same part of the reproductive cycle. Due to the fact that it is the male that becomes pregnant it was previously believed that it would be the females that competed for the male partners. This however is simply not the case. Like in most species, it is the male that competes with other males to attract and defend his female seahorse. So, it would appear that the male actually wants to be pregnant. The seahorse male is sounding more and more like every woman's perfect mate!
No, seahorses can't. They are a type of fish, and get oxygen using gills.
The common seahorse is able to blend into their surroundings. Female seahorses are yellow with dark spots, while males are gray with darker spots. Seahorses live around coral reefs, and lock their tails onto the reef to remain in place in swift currents. Seahorses are not good swimmers. Seahorses are very intelligent and have great memories.
What is a young sea horse is called?
Baby sea horses are not called "sea foals" like some people expect. They are actually called just "young".
