sábado, 23 de enero de 2016

White's Seahorse giving birth in the wild




Male H.Whitei seahorse giving birth off of Little Beach in Nelson Bay, NSW, Australia. Found by myself and Clayton Manning (http://www.projectseahorse.org/resear...) while doing seahorse surveys with Project Seahorse. 

1. The females deposit eggs into the male's brood pouch. He fertilizes the eggs and nourishes them until ready to give birth. Pipefish and seahorses (family syngnathidae) are the only animals where the males give birth.
 2. This male is around 13 cm, not 25-30 like the Hippocampus kuda is. This guy will likely still give birth to around 100-250... so he's got lots more work to do after the video ends.
 3. This species, H. whitei, is monogamous throughout its life. Bonus fact: seahorse babies are very capable, super efficient predators (at feeding on small crustaceans).

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