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Hang onto your petticoats, your ulster jackets, and your canes with ivory handles -- seahorses are about to get scandalous, y'all.
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And my other videos:
✩No Animal in the World Eats a Like Sea Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weIA9...
✩This Eel has the Ability to Bite You TWICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LG8y...
✩What Does This "Crab" Have To Do With the Covid Vaccine?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UXB9...
✩Barnacles Have the Biggest D!cks in the Ocean: youtube.com/watch?v=cP7y01zlpsk
Photo manipulations, creative consultant, thumbnail, and digital art by FriscoBorn.
Creative Commons Music “Emerald Therapy” by Jason Shaw on audionautix.com
Nowhere Land Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Video Sources:
Cow Turtle - Seahorses eating guppies and ghost shrimp: youtube.com/watch?v=XFPPwYWMzQQ
The Smithsonian Channel - Watch a Male Seahorse Give Birth to Hundreds of Babies: youtube.com/watch?v=wILL_rDRkIA
Sources:
etymonline.com/word/hippocampus#etymonline_v_34318
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seahorse
Foster, S. J., & Vincent, A. C. J. (2004). Life history and ecology of seahorses: implications for conservation and management. Journal of Fish Biology, 65(1), 1–61. doi:10.1111/j.0022-1112.2004.00429.x
Žalohar, J., Hitij, T., & Križnar, M. (2009). Two new species of seahorses (Syngnathidae, Hippocampus) from the Middle Miocene (Sarmatian) Coprolitic Horizon in Tunjice Hills, Slovenia: The oldest fossil record of seahorses. Annales de Paléontologie, 95(2), 71–96. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2009.03.002
Teske, P. R., & Beheregaray, L. B. (2009). Evolution of seahorses’ upright posture was linked to Oligocene expansion of seagrass habitats. Biology Letters, 5(4), 521–523. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0152
Van Wassenbergh, S., Roos, G., & Ferry, L. (2011). An adaptive explanation for the horse-like shape of seahorses. Nature Communications, 2(1). doi:10.1038/ncomms1168
Amanda C. J. Vincent. “Operational Sex Ratios in Seahorses.” Behaviour 128, no. 1/2 (1994): 153–67. jstor.org/stable/4535169.
Masonjones, H. D., & Lewis, S. M. (1996). Courtship Behavior in the Dwarf Seahorse, Hippocampus zosterae. Copeia, 1996(3), 634. doi:10.2307/1447527
JONES, A. G., KVARNEMO, C., MOORE, G. I., SIMMONS, L. W., & AVISE, J. C. (1998). Microsatellite evidence for monogamy and sex-biased recombination in the Western Australian seahorse Hippocampus angustus. Molecular Ecology, 7(11), 1497–1505. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00481.x
Jones, A. G., & Avise, J. C. (1997). Microsatellite analysis of maternity and the mating system in the Gulf pipefish Syngnathus scovelli, a species with male pregnancy and sex-role reversal. Molecular Ecology, 6(3), 203–213. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294x.1997.00173.x
Jones, A. G., Rosenqvist, G., Berglund, A., & Avise, J. C. (1999). The genetic mating system of a sex-role-reversed pipefish ( Syngnathus typhle ): a molecular inquiry. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 46(5), 357–365. doi:10.1007/s002650050630
Sridevi, J. P., Anantaraju, H. S., Kulkarni, P., Yogeeswari, P., & Sriram, D. (2014). Optimization and validation of Mycobacterium marinum-induced adult zebrafish model for evaluation of oral anti-tuberculosis drugs. International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 3(4), 259–267. doi:10.1016/j.ijmyco.2014.10.001
Hang onto your petticoats, your ulster jackets, and your canes with ivory handles -- seahorses are about to get scandalous, y'all.
Check out my Patreon: patreon.com/theoctopuslady
And my other videos:
✩No Animal in the World Eats a Like Sea Star: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weIA9...
✩This Eel has the Ability to Bite You TWICE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LG8y...
✩What Does This "Crab" Have To Do With the Covid Vaccine?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UXB9...
✩Barnacles Have the Biggest D!cks in the Ocean: youtube.com/watch?v=cP7y01zlpsk
Photo manipulations, creative consultant, thumbnail, and digital art by FriscoBorn.
Creative Commons Music “Emerald Therapy” by Jason Shaw on audionautix.com
Nowhere Land Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Video Sources:
Cow Turtle - Seahorses eating guppies and ghost shrimp: youtube.com/watch?v=XFPPwYWMzQQ
The Smithsonian Channel - Watch a Male Seahorse Give Birth to Hundreds of Babies: youtube.com/watch?v=wILL_rDRkIA
Sources:
etymonline.com/word/hippocampus#etymonline_v_34318
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/seahorse
Foster, S. J., & Vincent, A. C. J. (2004). Life history and ecology of seahorses: implications for conservation and management. Journal of Fish Biology, 65(1), 1–61. doi:10.1111/j.0022-1112.2004.00429.x
Žalohar, J., Hitij, T., & Križnar, M. (2009). Two new species of seahorses (Syngnathidae, Hippocampus) from the Middle Miocene (Sarmatian) Coprolitic Horizon in Tunjice Hills, Slovenia: The oldest fossil record of seahorses. Annales de Paléontologie, 95(2), 71–96. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2009.03.002
Teske, P. R., & Beheregaray, L. B. (2009). Evolution of seahorses’ upright posture was linked to Oligocene expansion of seagrass habitats. Biology Letters, 5(4), 521–523. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0152
Van Wassenbergh, S., Roos, G., & Ferry, L. (2011). An adaptive explanation for the horse-like shape of seahorses. Nature Communications, 2(1). doi:10.1038/ncomms1168
Amanda C. J. Vincent. “Operational Sex Ratios in Seahorses.” Behaviour 128, no. 1/2 (1994): 153–67. jstor.org/stable/4535169.
Masonjones, H. D., & Lewis, S. M. (1996). Courtship Behavior in the Dwarf Seahorse, Hippocampus zosterae. Copeia, 1996(3), 634. doi:10.2307/1447527
JONES, A. G., KVARNEMO, C., MOORE, G. I., SIMMONS, L. W., & AVISE, J. C. (1998). Microsatellite evidence for monogamy and sex-biased recombination in the Western Australian seahorse Hippocampus angustus. Molecular Ecology, 7(11), 1497–1505. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294x.1998.00481.x
Jones, A. G., & Avise, J. C. (1997). Microsatellite analysis of maternity and the mating system in the Gulf pipefish Syngnathus scovelli, a species with male pregnancy and sex-role reversal. Molecular Ecology, 6(3), 203–213. doi:10.1046/j.1365-294x.1997.00173.x
Jones, A. G., Rosenqvist, G., Berglund, A., & Avise, J. C. (1999). The genetic mating system of a sex-role-reversed pipefish ( Syngnathus typhle ): a molecular inquiry. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 46(5), 357–365. doi:10.1007/s002650050630
Sridevi, J. P., Anantaraju, H. S., Kulkarni, P., Yogeeswari, P., & Sriram, D. (2014). Optimization and validation of Mycobacterium marinum-induced adult zebrafish model for evaluation of oral anti-tuberculosis drugs. International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 3(4), 259–267. doi:10.1016/j.ijmyco.2014.10.001
