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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Serious question: how are male and female defined, and why does the sea horse that gets pregnant count as male and not female?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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 male brood pouch, a little pocket the male seahorse has on the front of him that has a placenta in it, and then he fertilizes those eggs and carries the fetuses for a few weeks and then little seahorses flutter out when he gives birth.

there's a video. and it's a LOT of baby flutterhorses

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/fish/male-seahorses-give-birth.htm

[–] einlander 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Basically a reverse kangaroo.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

yea lil flappy water kangaroos

[–] Viking_Hippie 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Incidentally, "reverse kangaroo" is also a sex act that is prohibited by law in all of the states and territories of Australia, except Tasmania.

[–] Hule 2 points 6 months ago

No, it isn't!

I looked it up...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Seahorses are the aliens we know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Do you have that image without text?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I wish I was a seahorse 😮‍💨

[–] Iron_Lynx 1 points 6 months ago

Male seahorses. Probably the most Omega species out there.