Seahorses
Seahorses are a very unique species in general, but something that makes them extraordinary is that the male seahorse is the one who gives birth the babies instead of the mother, but it is not what you are probably thinking. Seahorses have a different type of birth process. The male “has” the babies instead of the female. This is a rare process only happens in twelve kinds of animals.
Male seahorses carry and have the children because the female seahorse cannot. Male Seahorses have a pouch that they hold the children in. “Like kangaroos, seahorses have a pouch where the mother places the eggs” (Whitehead 63). “A seahorse's pouch is right in the center of their stomach, just like a kangaroo's” (Danielson “Seahorse Father takes Reins …show more content…
The female places, or fertilizes her eggs into the pouch, so they can produce more and more eggs over and over again” (Whitehead 65). The male seahorse must have the children because whenever the female deposits the eggs inside the male’s pouch, they automatically continue producing eggs. His pouch is an organ with many different systems in it that regulates temperature, blood flow and water salinity for the eggs as they hatch so the babies are as prepared as possible for life in the ocean. The parents do not care for the seahorses after birth because they make so many more children so fast and at an abundant speed that they sometimes can forget about the babies they made a couple of weeks ago. The seahorses have to try and care for themselves, and if they do not, then they will die. The male fertilizes the eggs internally and guards them with the life before they are born, though. “Parents don’t protect offspring or care for them at all after birth.” (Danielson “Seahorse Father takes Reins in Childbirth). Once the seahorses are born, the parents make them attempt to take care of themselves. “Fewer than five out of 1,000 seahorses survive throughout adulthood” (Humble “seahorse Facts”). Seahorse birth is a beautiful thing, but a very dangerous thing for the upcoming