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Endangered Seahorses
The resort has gone to great lengths to protect their reefs for the past fifteen years, which provided a rare opportunity to round up pygmy seahorse populations in a near pristine environment. Their habitat specificity and small population sizes mean that we may need to be taken to protect them in some areas.
The seahorse is a highly endangered animal mainly due to habitat loss and over hunting. The seahorse is a popular ingredient in medicine, and hundreds of seahorse are harvested every year for this purpose.
The seahorse is an omnivorous animal so the seahorse therefore eats a mixture of plant and animal matter. The seahorse eats by sucking the food into it's body through its elongated snout. The seahorse primarily feeds on brine shrimp. plankton, tiny species of fish and algae.
Nesting Sites
Seahorse’s predators are fish, and crab. The seahorse is also vulnerable to bad weather like storms, seahorses are often thrown from the places that they hang onto and pushed onto the shore. The small size and amazing camouflage of pygmy seahorses mean they do not have to deal with heavy rates of predation. Occasionally however, they may be opportunistically to be eaten by one of the reef's predators. There are also reports of long-nose hawkish eating pygmy seahorses.
Pygmy seahorses live in different habitats
from their larger cousins. Larger seahorses are rarely found on tropical corals reefs. Pygmy seahorses have evolved several adaptations to fill this perfectly. Three species of pygmy seahorse have evolved a special association with sessile coral reef invertebrates. Two, Bargibant and Denise's pygmy seahorses, are only found living on gorgonian corals. Bargibant lives only on one genus of gorgonian coral, The third species, the Walea pygmy seahorse, is found living in association with soft corals.
Water
The seahorse lives in areas that have still water. That is due to the fact that they can’t swim really good.
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Topography
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Escape Route
Most like a typical 76 degree range, though some species are picky.
Body Parts: They are unique in appearance, with their horse like head, prehensile tail, and brood pouch. They have long, tubular snouts. Their bodies are covered with consecutive rings of bony plates. Seahorses range in length from about 2 to 35 cm. When swimming they maintain a vertical position and propel themselves forward.Seahorses are usually found clinging to plants or corals with their tails. Their sedentary habits coupled with different camouflage abilities that are successful. When small organisms swim nearby, a sea horse may capture them by rapidly sucking them into the mouth. Sea horses also rely upon camouflage to avoid predators such as crabs and other fish.
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Seahorses camouflage in the coral they live in and feed off of. If they sense a predator they will hide in the coral and make themselves look like the coral they hide in.
Reproduction
We chose this animal because we thought that nobody really knew a lot of information about them.
Like all seahorses the male is responsible for all post fertilisation care of the developing young. Eggs are transferred, unfertilised, to him from his mate into his brood pouch. They remain within the pouch, which is full of blood vessels, until they are born 11-14 days later. The blood vessels bring nourishment and oxygen to the developing offspring. Between 6 and 34 young have been recorded from a single clutch of eggs.