Seahorses are one of the most amazing species on Earth, and they are extremely adaptable and evolutionary.
25 million years ago, they evolved a body structure suitable for growth.
Now, in the face of human intervention, in the face of human pollution and changes to the environment, they have also evolved extremely strange body structures.
Now there is a very strange seahorse, and in the waters of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, scientists have discovered a new species called the pygmy piper seahorse.
This seahorse is different from other previous seahorses, it is shaped like a flute, but its body is very small, only about two centimeters.
So, seahorses are a constantly changing species, they are very adaptable to the environment, they can evolve different body structures according to changes in the environment.
In ancient times, people called seahorses sea dragons, which are extremely strange animals, and they are often regarded as the mounts of sea gods because of their unique way of swimming.
The seahorse does not swim like other fish, it swims as if a person were walking. It just has no feet, and if it does, it's like a dragon walking on the bottom of the sea.
The seahorse swims in this form because it easily passes through the seaweed in search of food, which is related to its predation.
Another magical skill of seahorses is color change. It may be that he doped the chameleon gene during his evolution, so he could change the color of his body like a chameleon.
It can change with the color of the seafloor environment. Like a chameleon, he can hide in the seaweed under the water, if the seaweed is yellow, he turns yellow, and if the seaweed is green, he turns green. He has a strong ability to distinguish colors.
Since embarking on the road of camouflage sneak attacks, the seahorse's camouflage ability has become stronger and stronger, especially a seahorse called the Douding Seahorse, and even mastered the essence of the sea camouflage master octopus song.
Scientists found that the douding seahorse only lives on a coral called moray eel, which has two typical colors, one is orange and one is purple, and then the douding seahorse is the same, one orange, one purple, which arouses the interest of scientists, is the douding seahorse choosing corals to live in, or will it change color?
They were then lucky enough to collect a pair of mating bean-cuttered seahorses from orange sea corals. When they returned to the lab, the orange seahorse managed to give birth to the baby seahorse, the newborn baby seahorse did not yet have a clear color orientation, the researchers prepared purple coral for them, only to find that the baby seahorse really turned purple.
Scientists in the skin of the bean seapocampus. It was found that a pigment cell can change color with environmental changes, and it is very high-grade like the goods on the skin of octopus. It's just that the diversity of octopus colors and the ability to change colors in an instant are beyond anyone's reach.
Usually seahorses appear in the form of group hunting, they like to gather together to hunt prey, they are in their habitat, if there are dozens of groups of seahorses hunting together, their hunting success rate will be greatly improved, around 80%.
If there is only one seahorse hunting, and there are no plants such as seaweed nearby, its hunting success rate will be greatly reduced, only about 20%.
Another peculiar feature that destroys the three views is that the seahorse does not have a stomach at all, unlike other animals, it does not have a stomach that holds food.
So they can only eat constantly, they don't even have a stomach for food, they only have intestines in their stomachs, and after the food is eaten into the mouth, it directly enters the intestine for digestion and then excretes from the body.
This makes them have to eat constantly because they are hungry very quickly. They work 24 hours a day, 20 of which are eating.
They need to constantly eat to provide energy for their bodies, which may be an evolutionary bug, they have many abilities, but this one bug makes them eat constantly. They don't have stomachs to store food, so they can only digest with their intestines.
It has no stomach and can't store food, so it has to keep eating, like what algae, small shrimp and so on, they can eat more than 3,000 a day, and their appetite is very strong.
However, when there is a shortage of food, seahorses can actually carry them, because they rarely move, the energy consumption is very small, and the elasticity in the diet is very large.
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