Believe it or not that a seahorse is a fish. Seahorse have some
very unuasal features beside there shape. They have a prehensil tail that allows
them to grab onto things like sea grass. They are very slow swimmers and cant
take
strong
currents.They have a long and narrow snout to probe into rocks and crevases
for small shrimps and they suck them up with there snout since they dont have
any teeth. There suck is so powerful it disenegrates the food so it can go down
there snout. There dorsal fin beats 70 beats per second to move itself. Seahorse
come in variety of colors to jet black to bright orange or pink. Seahorse have
the ability to change color to blend in with there enviroment. During
morning
greatings or
during mating they usually flash white. There body is composed of boney plates
cover with flesh. The most stunning and unusual feature is the male gives birth
to the babys(fry). When a female decides to mate with the male they will perform
a courtship dance that can take up to days before she deposits her eggs into
his brood pouch. Then he will give birth around 2 weeks. The brood and gestation
period differs with species but average is two weeks. When he gives birth he
begins jack knifing and twitching to exspel the babys. They look like minitures
of the parents and are total indepenant.
