A record-breaking 918 baby short-snouted seahorses were born at London Zoo's aquarium on Monday and caught on camera.
Famed for their unusual gestation process - whereby the male is equipped with a 'brood pouch' and goes through pregnancy and birth - seahorses are notoriously hard to breed:
http://www.hastingsobserver.co.uk/newshastings/A-century-of-seahorses-born.6384428.jp
A century of seahorses born at Blue Reef - Hastings.............more than 100 seahorses were born at the aquarium. The tiny short-snouted seahorses, which are notoriously difficult to rear in captivity, were born as part of a nationwide breeding programme............................
"These babies were born from parents that were rescued after accidentally being caught by fishermen. .....................................
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