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The only magical animal on Earth where males are responsible for producing offspring. The most peculiar thing is that the male seahorse has a brood sac on its belly, while the female seahorse does not. The seahorse is a type of fish, but it looks good

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The only magical animal on Earth where males are responsible for producing offspring. The most peculiar thing is that the male seahorse has a brood sac on its belly, while the female seahorse does not.

Seahorses are a type of fish, but they don't look like ordinary fish, they are upright, have a curly tail, can catch plants, and have a mouth that looks like a straw.

Every year from May to August, after the male and female seahorses meet, the male seahorse will stretch and show off its brooding bag to charm the female seahorse, and then dance to hook up. This dance lasts for several days, during which their tails are wrapped around each other, and in the process their bodies change color, thus strengthening each other's emotional connection and assessing each other's reproductive ability.

After the male and female hippocampus mate, the female seahorse releases the eggs through its spawning tubes into the brooding sac of the male seahorse, and the male seahorse is responsible for fertilizing the eggs to ensure that it is the true father of the fertilized eggs.

Not only does the brooder protect the fertilized egg from being eaten by other predators, but during pregnancy, the male hippocampus also ensures that the blood around the embryo flows smoothly, controls the salt content of the environment, and provides oxygen and nutrition to the fetus. After 50 to 60 days of incubation, the male hippocampus muscles contracted, and about 2,000 small hippocampus were spurted out of the nursery bag one by one.

Once out of the nursery bag, the little seahorse can only rely on itself, most of them will be eaten by predators, or swept away by the current, so the survival rate is very low, the vast majority can not last until adulthood, 1000 small seahorses only 5 can grow up.

It is precisely because the survival rate of the little seahorse is too low, it needs to win by number, so some male seahorses can meet the female seahorse with eggs after giving birth in the morning, and before the evening they can start the next round of dancing, mating and egg laying pregnancy.

Some netizens said that the seahorse is a model father in the animal kingdom, and the human father is more likely to learn from the seahorse.

@郭郭1138

The evolution of nature is so magical, the male seahorse has a fish sac, controls the fertilization process himself, and ensures that these seahorses are its own biological.

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The only magical animal on Earth where males are responsible for producing offspring. The most peculiar thing is that the male seahorse has a brood sac on its belly, while the female seahorse does not. The seahorse is a type of fish, but it looks good
The only magical animal on Earth where males are responsible for producing offspring. The most peculiar thing is that the male seahorse has a brood sac on its belly, while the female seahorse does not. The seahorse is a type of fish, but it looks good
The only magical animal on Earth where males are responsible for producing offspring. The most peculiar thing is that the male seahorse has a brood sac on its belly, while the female seahorse does not. The seahorse is a type of fish, but it looks good

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