RJV World

One of the most fascinating fishes is the sea hose. Which is true fish. These small creatures, which look like miniature horses, have some fascinating habits. Sea horse is monogamous and stays with one partner for their entire lives. Every morning they perform greeting dance to reaffirm their pledge to each other.

If their partner dies, it is long time before the sea horse will search for a new partner. The male sea horse become pregnant and nourishes the young until they are born. Parental cares end and the baby sea horse must fend for themselves. A baby sea horse faces many dangers. It must protect itself from any predators, and if it mistakenly eats a small air bubbles thinking it’s food, it will die. Sea horse are not very agile and rely on camouflage for protection they can rapidly change color of their bodies to blend into whatever background they are in at time. Unfortunately those wonderful little horses like are becoming and endangered species. Asian countries use them for food medicine, aphrodisiacs, curio and aquarium market is also steadily growing. China alone consume consumes aver 6 million sea horse a year. There are at least 36 countries engaged in buying and selling sea horses. A sea horse rarely lives more than three years, but with it popularity as a food and medicine, not may will live even that long.