New Year’s seahorses/Ripley’s Aquarium
Ripley’s Aquarium Canada has announced the birth of a herd of lined seahorses Tuesday. The news is in a release which recalls that seahorses are curiously hatched by the male of the species after the female deposits her eggs in his pouch. The aquarium’s husbandry team reports the jelly bean sized babies were born at the aquarium early New Year’s Day as part of an ongoing conservation and education program. Seahorses are small marine fishes in the genus Hippocampus. They have a head and neck suggestive of a horse. They have an upright posture and a curled prehensile tail. The new baby seahorses will be on public display later this month.
