Talk:Seahorse

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• Seahorse - could use some reformatting, what to do with this seahorse list for instance, my knowledge on seahorses is limited. --Solitude 15:03, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I recall seeing a documentary on seahorses. It told us that the males get pregnant, and that they are like chameleons both in that they change colour and that their eyes move independently. (See also [1].)The fact that male sea horses "look" like they are going through pregnancy is. However, does the male really get pregnant? Or is it more like a marsupial pouch as that page describes it? -- Smjg 17:45, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Nees MORE info 2 Male pregnancy, only known in seahorses? 3 "Quality" of seahorses 4 Question

[edit] Nees MORE info

i think you need more info like whne was the first seahorse found ? Or there are how many species of this creature etc. etc.

[edit] Male pregnancy, only known in seahorses?

CMale pregnancy only have seahorses in its list of known male pregnancies.

Pipefishes and seahorses are the only known species to which the term "male pregnancy" has been applied, according to this article. =Axlq 05:41, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Quality" of seahorses

AV: Seahorses are becoming very valuable. The best quality seahorses in traditional Chinese medicine -- the smooth pale, large seahorses -- now sell in Hong Kong for up to $550 U.S. per pound. Even the seahorses that are not quite such good quality are selling for a couple of hundred dollars per pound. There are about 39 countries around the world now involved in the seahorse trade, most of them trading dried seahorses for traditional Chinese medicine. So this is becoming quite big business, which is part of the problem.

• taken from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/seahorse/vincent.html

[edit] Question

how the heck do they swim? the tail? it doesnt look like it would make them very fast or even be able to keep them up... does it go back and forth or side to side thuglas^T|C 00:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)