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Male Seahorse Gives Birth
It is the male seahorse that incubates the eggs and then gives birth. So should he get cards and gifts on Mother's Day, too?
Filmed at The Deep, Hull, Yorkshire – the world's only submarium is home to over 3500 fish, including sharks and rays. This was filmed a while ago when a pair of seahorses, seized from Customs, gave birth. There are many illegally imported seahorses. When they are discovered by Customs and Excise, London Zoo aquarium at ZSL help out by housing and taking care of them. There were so many this time they could not take them all. The Deep was able to help out by taking this mature breeding pair.
Many seahorses are classified as VULNERABLE and have shown population declines of 20% over the last ten years. We haven't enough information about some species to be able to manage their exploitation.
Project Seahorse is an organisation that serves as the formal IUCN Redlist authority on seahorses. It also pioneers many different schemes to help reduce these population declines. Using holistic approaches involving local people, communicating with major consumers and developing socio-economic solutions to the threats, Project Seahorse is at the forefront of seahorse conservation.
Dads are great, and if you didn't take yours out for a fabulous, compassionate Father's Day dinner over the weekend, it's not too late! You can still celebrate with a Meat-Free meal this week with him. :-)
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Sources: Project Seahorse, https://goo.gl/Fssm1O; BenSound.com
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