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Do you like horses?

Of course, a horse is a beautiful animal. Especially if it's a good breed, its nobility dazzles.

But do you like sea horses?

Isn't there really such a thing as a sea horse?

When I was little, they used to be in shallow waters in Kefken. We used to catch them with our children's minds when we didn't even know how to swim properly. Somewhere there would be a dried one from my childhood.

Isn't it interesting, sea horses have a head like a horse's head.

Now I actually feel sad, maybe if we hadn't caught them, if others hadn't caught them, they would have reproduced and gone away.

I don't know if they exist in our neighbourhood anymore, but as I said, we used to come across them in shallow places when I was little.

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An interesting creature is the sea horse. 

It is not only interesting because it looks like a horse, it has many interesting aspects.

I learnt afterwards, what I liked the most is that they live monogamously like us humans, or let's say a feature identified with doves, like doves, they live monogamously throughout their lives. 

Of course, it is also very interesting that they can swim vertically in the water. 

Did you know that sea horses are actually a fish?

Its tail evolved in a different way than other fish and by curling its tail, it clings to algae and corals and feeds either on plankton or small shrimps.

Also, while other creatures have evolved with muscles on their skeleton, sea horses have a shell-shaped exoskeleton. That's why the sea horses that we caught and dried when they were small would dry as they were.

However, the most interesting of all these interesting aspects is a feature that almost no other creature has. The males of seahorses, including two other creatures from the same family as seahorses, get pregnant instead of the females.

Yes, indeed, males have a special pouch and the female lays her eggs in this pouch during mating. The eggs fertilised by the male in this pouch are released into the water after two to three weeks of pregnancy by the male sea horse with the contractions it makes in its pouch. 

Hundreds of little jellyfish were born by the male!

I don't know, it seemed interesting to me, as a general life form, the process of giving birth or laying eggs is carried out by females in all other living things, but how come this function is undertaken by males in seahorses, believe me, I couldn't get my mind.

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Wouldn't it be strange if we had that?

I wonder how civilisation would evolve if it were like this?

Can you imagine a woman in the Muslim world, a rosary in her hand in front and four pregnant men behind her?

A woman-dominated world instead of a male-dominated world!

I can't even imagine it.

However, after I learnt about these characteristics of sea horses, I started to respect them more. 

It seems that they prefer to share life more than us humans.

By the way, evolutionary scientists say that the reason for this situation is that sea horses are very slow in swimming, they are very quickly eaten by other creatures, and in general, since the production of eggs is a much more laborious process than sperm production, if sea horses, like other creatures, lose time with the pregnancy period by their females, their generations will definitely disappear, so the male takes over this function from the female and accelerates the reproduction process and they have managed to continue their generations until today.

What does the continuation of the generation do to living things, right?

I hope this was useful for the curious.

Stay with biology.

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow