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Male seahorses carry the pregnancy
Females deposit eggs in his brood pouch and he gives birth to live young The pouch supplies oxygen and regulates the salt balance of the developing embryos. A male can deliver hundreds of young at a time. Seahorses hold position with a small dorsal fin and anchor with a prehensile tail. It sits in Mondo's animals collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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Male seahorses carry the pregnancy: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Females deposit eggs in his brood pouch and he gives birth to live young. The figure is taken from NOAA Fisheries, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a animals fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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