Urgent: Seahorses

[Alish24]

I ll try to contact her and say her about you Dr. Stein..I think she had some projects in Blacksea and Mediterranean..meybe u ll be useful to each other

[Dr.Stein]

Ah ya, I like the word "collaboration" and "cooperation"

... and "project" as well hehehe

Thank you.

[victor]

Oh my god !!! I've just known that Seahorse is a type of fish...

[victor]

hey boss, maybe this link can help you...
http://www.seahorse.com/Frequently_Aske ... medicine?/

[Dr.Stein]

Oh my god !!! I've just known that Seahorse is a type of fish...

Crazy

Btw, thanks for the link. I've been there previously, they change the name now, it was Oceanrider.com

[opuntia]

I don't know if this is true, but today i heard in one of the Animal Planet's shows, that the male sea horses are the ones that give birth to young ones...not the females,
Dr.Stein, since you might already have collected a lot of information about sea horses, would you please help my curiosity to go back to sleep( ) by explaining what the female does if what i wrote above is true.

[Linn]

this was nagging my brain
because I remember reading about sea horses in National Geographic.
They have a few aritcles. use their search.
Here is one
from your stomping grounds:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... horse.html
linn

[February Beetle]

i think i saw the same show as you! the male carries the females eggs like on his tummy until they are ready to hatch. I think the female kind of places them there somehow, not like opposite fertilization. Thats what i think but i'm sure Dr. Stein could tell you a lot better than me!

[Linn]

I love seahorse. Especially that the male does all the work! lol
I get ticked off to think people make keychains out of them.
or grind them up for some sort of medicine. they do that with tiger testicles too. aphrodisiac u know
WE could get real good imitation sea horse key chains from China.
linn

[opuntia]

Well, today, i read a full article about the sea horses and it consists of many information about them...i'll post the article as soon as i finish typing it

[Dr.Stein]

I don't know if this is true, but today i heard in one of the Animal Planet's shows, that the male sea horses are the ones that give birth to young ones...not the females,
Dr.Stein, since you might already have collected a lot of information about sea horses, would you please help my curiosity to go back to sleep( ) by explaining what the female does if what i wrote above is true.

The female lays 200-1000 eggs and direct them to male's brood pouch (like female mammal's uterine structure) thru a pipe processed from her belly. The male will take care of them like a pregnant female at least for 10 days until they hatch. When they are hatching, then the male starts to jerk to release them out one by one, with similar contraction like when a pregnant woman is about to deliver her baby (ouch!).

During the "male pregnancy", the female supports him with swimming around him everyday, send greeting every morning and afternoon, change her skin color periodically, and sounds like "click...click" from her jaws. This is true, I am no kidding

If you see their courtship...aww, it is so romantic. It could last until three days until the female store eggs in male pouch. One thing to admire, they are monogamous, means that when one dies, cught by fisherman or predator, or something else, the left one will stay alone. She/he will get a new partner after loooooooong time or they decided to be along for her/his entire life...awwwww they are so faithful to each other

Here are some figures form my collection:

Male pregnancy


Mating seahorses


Dancing seahorses (courtship dance)


Which one is male? Female?


Faithful pair


Enjoy

[victor]

I've seen things about that "horse" also in animal planet and that's why the categorized them as the most EXTREME male parents..