What should I be? How do I prepare for a career if I don’t even know what I want to do?” "What to do? What to do?" Photo by Dmitry Rozhkov at Wikimedia Commons.ĭoes this sound familiar: “I know I want to work with animals, but I don’t know if I want to be a vet. Once they are within striking distance, they snap their heads and suck up their prey. Because of the shape of their head and their slow, finless method of movement, seahorses move with near hydrodynamic silence, barely moving the water as their stealthily sneak up on their prey. Seahorses are one of the ocean's deadliest predators, with a 90% kill rate. Seahorses do not have stomachs and don't digest very well, so they have to eat constantly.ħ. They have a toothless, tubular snout, which they use to suck up small fish and crustaceans. But seahorses have excellent vision and their eyes can work independently, meaning they can look forward and backward at the same time!Ħ. They have the fewest genes for olfactory receptors (used in other animals for smell and taste) of any ray-finned fish species known. Seahorses have terrible smell but amazing vision. They are even able to grow fleshy appendages (called cirri) that help them with camouflage by giving them a weed-like appearance.ĥ. Seahorses are experts at camouflage and can change color. It is a good thing they have a prehensile tail to hang on to whatever is nearby.Ĥ. Seahorses and razorfish are the only fish to swim upright, because it is horribly inefficient. They use even smaller pectoral fins on the sides of their head to steer. The only fin they have to get around with it the tiny one in the middle of their back (the dorsal fin). Seahorses are terrible swimmers and can die of exhaustion if the sea is rough or the current is too strong.
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Instead, their skin is stretched over a series of bony plates arranged in rings.ģ. Seahorses do not have pelvic fins, ribs or scales. Unlike other bony fish, seahorses have a neck, an exoskeleton, and a prehensile tail. Seahorses have skeletons unlike any other fish. But seahorses are not your typical fish! A baby seahorse is called a fry (like in other fish), but a group of seahorses is called a herd (like in horses).Ģ. They include about 54 different species of fish and are closely related to sea dragons and pipefish.
Photo by Gustavo Gerdel at Wikimedia Commons.ġ.
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