sounds from the deep blue: seahorses
<p><span class="sectionCaption"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica"><a name="pregnant"></a><b><font size="3">Seahorses form faithful pairs—and seahorse dads get pregnant</font></b></font><br/></span><font size="3"><span class="contentDefault">Seahorses form long-term faithful pair bonds. Though they spend time apart, each day at dawn they join in a graceful dance of greeting. When they mate, it's the male who gets pregnant. He carries the young in a pouch until they're born, up to six weeks later.</span><br/><br/></font><span class="sectionCaption"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica"><a name="smallest"></a><b><font size="3">They're big and small, active hunters and colorful characters, too</font></b></font><br/></span><span class="contentDefault"><font size="3">There are 32 species of seahorses, ranging in size from dwarf seahorses an inch or less in length to potbelly seahorses more than a foot long. Long narrow snouts let them suck up the tiny animals like brine shrimp that they eat. Some, like cape seahorses, are beige colored; others can be bright orange or purple. </font></span></p><p><span class="contentDefault"><span class="sectionCaption"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica"><a name="life"></a><b><font size="3">Their lives are short, and they have few offspring</font></b></font><br/></span><span class="contentDefault"><font size="3">Seahorses live relatively brief lives, from a single year to perhaps four years or more. And they don't produce many young at a time. </font><a href="javascript:openLivingSpeciesList(0,%2010,%20437)"><font size="3">Longsnout seahorses<img height="12" alt="" src="http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/efc_hp/content/images/lsl_fish3.gif" width="17" align="bottom" border="0"/></font></a><font size="3">, like other species, lay perhaps 1,000 eggs; other fishes produce hundreds of thousands each time they spawn. Many fishes eat young seahorses; adults have few predators. </font></span></span></p><p><span class="contentDefault"><span class="contentDefault"><span class="sectionCaption"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica"><a name="colors"></a><b><font size="3">Camouflage helps keep seahorses safe from harm </font></b></font><br/></span><span class="contentDefault"><font size="3">Seahorses can match their color to the places where they live. That makes it hard for potential predators to see them. They're also able to grow long skin filaments that help them blend into the background.<br/><br/></font></span><span class="sectionCaption"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica"><a name="colors"></a><b><font size="3">Seahorses make their homes in waters around the world </font></b></font><br/></span><span class="contentDefault"><font size="3">Seahorses, including tiger tails, are most common in tropical seas, but they're found in all but the coldest ocean waters. Creatures of the coastlines, they usually live in water no more than 50 feet deep. They're most often found in the IndoPacific and West Atlantic regions</font></span></span></span></p>[attach]6932[/attach]<br/>
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