Thursday, September 24, 2015

Video: Sea Horse Male Birth Baby Hundreds Simultaneously

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Sea horse is a unique animal. Not only because of its shape alone. Seahorses do not have the teeth and stomach, monogamy, and the charge of giving birth is a male sea horse.
Video: Sea Horse Male Birth Baby Hundreds Simultaneously

The male has a belly pouch. When mating, the female sea horse put up to 1500 eggs into the pouch. The process of fertilization occurs internally. The inner lining of the stomach pouch filled with blood vessels, and sea horses male fertilizes the eggs become embryos.
The male containing eggs for 9-45 days, until the embryo develops into a baby seahorse the size is still very small. Then, the babies are born in the water. Can be seen in the video, how the male sea horse as if sprayed hundreds of babies out of the stomach pouch, average number of babies born between 100 and 1000.
After delivery, the role of the male sea horse has been completed. In fact, sea horses often directly remarried within a few hours or days in the breeding season.

The video was filmed at The Deep, public aquariums and research facilities in Hull, England. The Deep help couples sea horses to breed. To that end, the couple dittempatkan sea horses in the quarantine tank. After the babies were born, they moved to a better facility.

Many sea horses, as shown in this video, including the categories of animals which are vulnerable by the IUCN Red List. The population continued to decline to 20% in the last 10 years. This is due to habitat destruction, pollution, and illegal trade to be used as a traditional medicine in Asia.

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