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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Serious question: how are male and female defined, and why does the sea horse that gets pregnant count as male and not female?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

it sounds like they consider a male seahorse a male because he produces sperm rather than eggs.

The female seahorse drops her eggs off into a male brood pouch, a little pocket the male seahorse has on the front of him that has a placenta in it, and then he fertilizes those eggs and carries the fetuses for a few weeks and then little seahorses flutter out when he gives birth.

there's a video. and it's a LOT of baby flutterhorses

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/male-seahorses-give-birth.htm

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Basically a reverse kangaroo.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

yea lil flappy water kangaroos

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