Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The secret life of seahorses

Seahorses mating.

'The couple halt in the open water column and hold their bodies close, forming a heart shape with their touching snouts and ­bellies. Their first attempt isn’t quite right, so they break apart and try again several times until their position is perfected, the female just above the male. Then an extraordinary thing happens. A short hollow tube emerges from the female, which she pushes into an opening in her partner’s belly."
Photograph: George Grall/Getty Images/National Geographic
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