Seahorses are the aliens we know.
me & him
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 months ago
A t4t heterosexual couple 💕
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 months ago
I wish I was a seahorse 😮💨
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Do you have that image without text?
10_0@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Lol
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Male seahorses. Probably the most Omega species out there.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Serious question: how are male and female defined, and why does the sea horse that gets pregnant count as male and not female?
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…
einlander@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Basically a reverse kangaroo.
azi@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Male is the sex that produces the smaller gamete, female the sex that produces the larger
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:
From Wikipedia
I could see how this could be seen as pregnancy.
Shhalahr@beehaw.org 2 months ago
Oh, god. They have a pregnancy fetish.
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.
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?