I've put these pictures up because I like the photos - and it is to do with the sea! In the news recently: more than 120 endangered short-snouted seahorses have been born at Portsmouth's Blue Reef Aquarium (www.bluereefaquarium.co.uk).
LOCAL SPECIES: There are believed to be two separate species of seahorse in British waters - the short-snouted and the long-snouted.
INTERESTING FACT: the seahorse is the only animal where the male rather than the female that carries and gives birth to the babies. The female lays her eggs in the male's pouch on his stomach and he fertilises them and incubates them.
[ Frank  |   1 August 2008 ]