Yes, Male Seahorses Do Give Birth! Here's How - HowStuffWorks
2024年5月27日 · Male seahorses carry and give birth to their young, a unique trait among members of the Syngnathidae family, which includes seahorses, seadragons and pipefish. Female seahorses deposit eggs into the male's brood pouch, where the male fertilizes and incubates them until birth.
Seahorse | Description, Reproduction, Habitat, & Facts | Britannica
2024年9月5日 · The reproductive behaviour of seahorses is notable in that the male carries the fertilized eggs. After an elaborate courtship , the female uses an ovipositor (egg duct) to place her eggs into a brood pouch located at the base of the …
How do seahorses differ from all other animals? - NOAA's …
2024年6月16日 · Seahorses and their close relatives, sea dragons, are the only species in which the male gets pregnant and gives birth. Male seahorses and sea dragons get pregnant and bear young—a unique adaptation in the animal kingdom.
Male seahorses grow placentas to incubate their young
2021年9月23日 · Now, new research finds the male’s brood pouch—which can hold up to 1000 baby seahorses at a time—develops and functions like a human placenta. “Evolution is just mind boggling,” says Camilla Whittington, an evolutionary biologist at the University of …
Seahorse Fathers Take Reins in Childbirth - National Geographic
June 14, 2002. • 5 min read. It's true that male seahorses never play catch with their children or help them with their homework. But they do outdo human dads on one count: Male seahorses...
See a Male Seahorse Give Birth - Scientific American
2020年11月20日 · In all of the vast animal kingdom spanning the planet, seahorses (and their pipefish and sea dragon relatives) are the only species whose male members give birth to young.
Seahorses, facts and photos - National Geographic
Learn how male seahorses astound the animal world by bearing unborn young. Find out why these fish must eat constantly to stay alive.
Animal Sex: How Seahorses Do It - Live Science
2013年8月27日 · Seahorses are an oddity in the animal kingdom: Males, rather than females, get pregnant and give birth to young. But aside from this well-known fact, what else have scientists learned about the...
How do we know it’s the male seahorses that give birth?
How do we know it’s the male seahorses that give birth? - BBC Science Focus Magazine.
New research uncovers the unique way seahorse fathers give birth
2022年9月6日 · Our unexpected results suggest male seahorses use different mechanisms to give birth compared to female pregnant animals. We speculate that oxytocin-family hormones, instead of primarily producing smooth muscle contractions, trigger the cascade of seahorse behaviours that lead to birth.
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