SEAHORSES
Fish - Vertebrate - Omnivore
Fish - Vertebrate - Omnivore
CORAL REEF SEAHORSE
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Male: Seastallion
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Female: Seamare
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Young: Seafoal
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SEAHORSES
There are 30-40 species of seahorses worldwide.
There are 30-40 species of seahorses worldwide.
- 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, moving at about 0.01 miles per hour.
- 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.
Visit: Seahorses . COLLECTIVE NOUNS