Fun fact of the day! Did you know male sea horses GIVE
BIRTH? And even weirder, they give birth THROUGH THEIR CHESTS. I watched the
video in English today and oh my gosh it looks like an evil alien octopus is
trying to be expelled from the sea horses chest. The baby sea horses tails are
hanging out from the dad’s stomach and their tails are just floating and
flipping in the water it’s so weird!! It’s creepy and the babies look like
skeletons. My English teacher decided that the class needed to see it today and
she was right when she said it’s disgusting. The poor daddy seahorse looks like
he’s trying to throw up but nothing wants to come out. And there is a HOLE in
his CHEST filled with babies! Seahorses can carry from fifty to fifteen hundred
eggs, depending on the size of the seahorse. When he is giving birth he
literally has to grab on to something with his tail to help him it’s so sad and
disgusting at the same time I don’t know what to think. Male seahorses are “pregnant”
from anywhere between two to four weeks and contractions can last up to twelve
hours! Baby seahorses are also known as fry. That is probably the weirdest name
to give them especially since they look nothing like fries and don’t even look
like they were fried so I think that’s a poor choice in the naming system. Less
than one thousand fry will survive because of predators. I never knew how weird
sea horses could be, but thank you Ms. B for reminding the human race that
child birth can be so much more difficult then what we do.
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