Comment on me & him

NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 brood pouch, a little pocket the male seahorse has on the front of him, and then he fertilizes those eggs and then little seahorse come out after a bit.

  …howstuffworks.com/…/male-seahorses-give-birth.ht…

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  • einlander@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Basically a reverse kangaroo.

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    • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yea lil flappy water kangaroos

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • Hule@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, it isn’t!

        I looked it up…

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• azi@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Male is the sex that produces the smaller gamete, female the sex that produces the larger

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• flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Usually animals are categorized as male and female based on what type of gametes their gonads produce. So male sea horses produce sperm.

  Not sure how to count the “pregnancy” though, as these are fish and because of the following:

  The male seahorse is equipped with a brood pouch on the ventral, or front-facing, side of the tail. When mating, the female seahorse deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male’s pouch. The male carries the eggs for 9 to 45 days until the seahorses emerge fully developed, but very small. The young are then released into the water, and the male often mates again within hours or days during the breeding season

  From Wikipedia

  I could see how this could be seen as pregnancy.

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  • Shhalahr@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The young are then released into the water, and the male often mates again within hours or days during the breeding season

    Oh, god. They have a pregnancy fetish.

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• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The male doesn’t get pregnant. It’s like a kangaroo with a pouch to carry the babies.

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  • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Except that in cangaroos the mother actually needs to be pregnant and birth its babies first. In sea horses the female directly lays the eggs inside the pouch of the male, impregnating it, and the male then undergoes pregnancy. So actually very different to kangaroos?

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, it’s exactly like kangaroos. /s…

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      • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My point was that it is nothing like in kangaroos. The comparison is just misleading.

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