SEAHORSES
Fish     -     Vertebrate     -     Omnivore
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CORAL REEF SEAHORSE
Seahorses …
  • Live in shallow weedy areas and move to deeper waters in winter
  • Breath through gills and have a swim bladder
  • Eat small crustacean
  • Have excellent eyesight and each eye works independently on either side of their head so that they can look forwards and backwards at the same time
  • One species of seahorse is less than one inch long
  • Are the slowest fish in the ocean
  • Change colour when they are stressed
  • Males get pregnant, not the female
  • When resting, they curl their tails around coral or seaweed so that they don't float away
  • Are poor swimmers
  • Mate for life and travel together holding on to each other's tails
  • Only 5 in 1,000 seahorses survive to adulthood
  • Are the only fish with a neck
  • Beat their fins almost as fast as hummingbirds beat their wings                

There are 30-40 species of seahorses worldwide
Male  ...........................................  Seastallion
Female   ......................................  Seamare
Young  .......................... ..............  Seafoal
COLLECTIVE NOUNS
  1. A herd of seahorses
  2. A shoal of seahorses