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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨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?

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Basically a reverse kangaroo.

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  • azi@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨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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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Seahorses are the aliens we know.

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• apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A t4t heterosexual couple 💕

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  • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    T4t?

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    • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Trans for trans

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wish I was a seahorse 😮‍💨

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Do you have that image without text?

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• 10_0@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lol

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• Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Male seahorses. Probably the most Omega species out there.

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