Friday, September 24

Hippo Campus

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/09/hundreds-of-baby-seahorses-cau.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

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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