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The Sea Horse

With a head shaped like a tiny prancing pony, a body encased in rigid plates and thorny spines, and a tail like a snake's there is little about the sea horse to suggest that it is really a fish. It swims upright with the aid of its single back fin. With its tail curled 'round sea weed to keep from being swept away, it looks like some strange pigmy drag- on out of a fairy tale. The most curious thing is, that the female sea horse puts her eggs into the male's "vest pocket", a sort of pouch like a kan- garoo's, so that the father instead of the mother carries the eggs about until they hatch.

Their food consists of small sea creatures and the eggs of other fish. They refuse to eat dead things.

GENERAL FLORIDA SCENE IN NATURAL COLOR PHOTO COURTESY MARINE STUDIOS, MARINELAND FLORIDA STATE USA

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