Fun facts!

DID YOU KNOW? :D

Conventionally, parents take care and attend to the needs of their young. However, the seahorses do not! Instead, they just leave the baby seahorses to gain independence themselves. But, they do a teeny weeny bit for them.

As mentioned before, their brood pouch regulates salinity (dissolved salt content of a body of water) for the eggs, slowly increasing in the pouch to match that of sea water outside as the eggs mature. Once the offspring hatch, the male releases the baby seahorses and does not provide parental care for them.

So.. the little seahorses are left to wander off in the sea alone!