• @[email protected]
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    1 month ago

    it sounds like they consider a male seahorse a male because he produces sperm rather than eggs.

    The female seahorse drops her eggs off into a male brood pouch, a little pocket the male seahorse has on the front of him that has a placenta in it, and then he fertilizes those eggs and carries the fetuses for a few weeks and then little seahorses flutter out when he gives birth.

    there’s a video. and it’s a LOT of baby flutterhorses

    https://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/male-seahorses-give-birth.htm

    • @einlander
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      161 month ago

      Basically a reverse kangaroo.

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        71 month ago

        Incidentally, “reverse kangaroo” is also a sex act that is prohibited by law in all of the states and territories of Australia, except Tasmania.

        • @Hule
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          229 days ago

          No, it isn’t!

          I looked it up…