Amazing animals. By Alejandro Cañas B.

THE BEST FATHER OF THE WORLD (THE SEA HORSE)

The seahorse is a small very specializing salt-water fish. It´s name refers to seemed of his face with the terrestrial horses, but nothing else it is possible to compare with them.

They reproduce from the spring until the summer’s months. In this epoch, the male and the female interlace with the tail. After a wedding dance, in this position, the female penetrates of his sewer, with help of a genital papilla of some 3mm. Of length, his eggs to the bag ventral of the males, that it is covered with soft fabric and arranged in compartments, to support every separated egg, as in spongy cells.


A male can be visited certainly number of females who leave eggs him, but if an egg doesn´t manage to come to one of these departments doesn’t develop. Nevertheless, which fall good, develop in this bag up to 50 or 60 days and dead inside it.

The birth or ejection of the young men seems to be exhausting for the father. Supporting firmly with the tail as an aid, he rubs his bag against a shell or rock until the young men go out, with fractions of his internal fabrics.
A male of good size can give birth more than 400 young men, who are the perfect reply of the adult.