Male seahorses give birth to loads of baby seahorses!

[♥ Lily ♥]

Nature is so fascinating and seahorses are such intricate and beautiful species.
It's unusual how the males are the ones to give birth to so many baby seahorses.
I wonder if there's other male species in nature that does the same too..?

[Fear Fiain]

question, how then are they determined to be male?

[♥ Lily ♥]

question, how then are they determined to be male?

That's such a good question and it's something I've also wondered about too.
I'm not a scientist and I am sorry that I do not know the reasons why, so I can't answer this question myself, but I have a lot of faith in scientists and I have no reason to doubt their own research findings and the reports of these highly educated men in saying it's the male seahorses which give birth.
I found this excellent explanation for it written by another person who is far more informed on this subject than I am, (sowwy) and in reading this persons answer (link below) it now becomes more understandable.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...9043743AA0em2H

[Fear Fiain]

That's such a good question and it's something I've also wondered about too.
I'm not a scientist and I am sorry that I do not know the reasons why, so I can't answer this question myself, but I have a lot of faith in scientists and I have no reason to doubt their own research findings and the reports of these highly educated men in saying it's the male seahorses which give birth.
I found this excellent explanation for it written by another person who is far more informed on this subject than I am, (sowwy) and in reading this persons answer (link below) it now becomes more understandable.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/i...9043743AA0em2H

I'm guessing it has to do with the definition of sperm as the fertilizing part and the egg as the part fertilized ... it just seems with something so ancient and bizarre, do these terms male and female, egg and sperm, just all kindof fall short?
why not describe them as type and and type b? or why not call the ones who implant the "eggs" and doesn't get pregnant as the male?

I guess God was still sketching the whole sexual reproduction thing when he made the seahorse.