Specie Sea
Specie Sea
Do You Know The Horses In Sea?
Do you know the horses in sea?
Most of us don’t know about seahorses since we all don’t have the opportunity to see seahorses. I am pretty sure that most of you have not seen a single seahorse up till now including me. I love to know about different living beings in this planet. So I did a small online research yesterday and also it is my pleasure to share my research with you.
Seahorse is almost a fish. It belongs to the pipefish family. There are more than 35 kinds of seahorses all over the world. We can see seahorses in different lengths. The giant seahorse is 1.5 in length. Some kinds of seahorses live in seaweeds or the plants in seas.
These innocent sea living beings are very vulnerable to the environment. As humans we must learn chastity from seahorses. A seahorse won’t find another girl friend or boy friend once its partner died. Seahorses have interesting love stories in their life. If one male seahorse falls in love with a female, it will change its colour just like the female seahorse’s colour. Females also do like this. But all seahorses are not doing like this. Sometimes they get severe diseases and even death due to this colour changes. A seahorse will not live more than 24 hours after the death of its partner. Sometimes if they can’t find a partner from the same species, they will look for a partner from a different species.
Here the male seahorses only get pregnancy. They have a small breeding bag or pouch in their skin. Females offer slight orange colour eggs into the males’ pouches. So the seahorse babies live inside and then finally they are living born. Most of the male seahorses die after the birth of seahorse babies. The reason would be that there will be dead ponies inside the pouch of males. It will cause bacteria infection.
The duration of pregnancy is almost 2-5 weeks. Some species of seahorses have long pregnancy durations.
Some times there will be false pregnancies as matching also occur between different species of seahorses.
Also these seahorses are used for business purposes. People import and export seahorses just like they import and export colour fishes, prawns and other sea living beings. The business people keep and manage special tanks for seahorses. They find that seahorses are very friendly with humans. Seahorses eat out of the person’s hand who feed for them without making any harms. When people do something inside the tanks, seahorses give a lovable touch to them.
If the traders do not handle it very carefully, it will lead to a total depletion of this race. People eat dry seahorses. Consumption of seahorses is very high in USA especially in North America. Countries such as Europe, Japan and USA import thousands of seahorses as pets.
Seahorses are heavily used in medical science. In China, Korea and Japan; the seahorses are used as ingredient of several medicines. Seahorses give huge relieves for the diseases such as asthma, arteriosclerosis and skin diseases. It can give a permanent relief for sexual dysfunction.
Most of the seahorse lovers buy rounded body seahorses because they are very easy to look after. The seahorses which have skin like mushrooms are very difficult to handle because they get illness very soon.
Traders usually do not put seahorses with agile fishes and other violent feeders in the tanks. Agile fishes are the foremost enemies of seahorses. Anyhow seahorses also have companion races. Trunk fishes, small pipe fishes and blennies are friendly with seahorses. They all can survive together without fighting for food and other reasoning.
Seahorses are wonderful food lovers. They want variety of foods just like us. They practice an unbalanced food strategy. They have several challenges in their life. Seahorses have the capacity to solve their problems themselves. But they are actually vulnerable to the bacterial infection. As we discussed in the above paragraphs, they get bacterial infection due to the pregnancy and death of ponies inside the pouch.
There are lots of interesting lessons that humans have to learn from seahorses’ life. I believe that this effort would give you at least a brief understanding and an interest about seahorses. Anyhow we should salute seahorses for their amazing chastity and their life style.
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The only living member of the genus Caretta, the Loggerhead sea turtle can grow up to an intimidating 364 kg and 1.1 metres long. The species is so named for the turtle's over-large head punctuated by a set of strong jaws suitable for feeding on a wide range of sea life from mollusks (whelks and conch) to crustaceans (crabs and shrimp) to fish and jellyfish. They have also been known to consume small or immature marine animals such as sea birds and mammals.
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