The male seahorse pregnant and give birth


During the breeding season the female seahorse swims up to the male, and with the help of the nipple-like appendage enters eggs in a special chamber in the form of a bag on the abdomen of the male. Male brood pouch (this is the bag) is enmeshed in a network of blood vessels, and the embryos can be removed from the blood of his father the nutrition they need. When the fry out of eggs, they break through the bag from the inside. Perhaps the male seahorses - the only males throughout the animal world, experiencing the birth agony.

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