What’s more magical than a seahorse?
Now at the Monterey Bay Aquarium is an incredible sea horse exhibit. Here are some tidbits you may not know…
1. Seahorses change colors. Thier ability to camoflage themselves is even better than a chameleon.
2. The female can lay about 200 eggs, and the father is the one who carries them until they hatch. Which, is only two to three weeks later.
3. In Asia seahorses are used as medicine (believed to cure many things from asthma to impotence) and aphrodesiacs.
4. The jaws of a seahorse are fused. To eat they suck live prey through their long snout. Having no teeth, their food gets swallowed whole.
We were certainly mesmorized at the varieties of sea horses at the Aquarium, some no bigger than a grain of rice. You could see plenty close-up, and what you couldn’t see was shown on video screens, like the beautiful dance they do when they mate. But toward the back of the exhibit I saw something that I have to admit, may be even more magical than the seahorse…
A sea dragon! Can you spot him? To watch these swim around was fascinating. Quite clever that Mother Nature. If you get the chance, this is definately worth checking out.
Underwater Adventures (the world’s largest underground aquarium, supposedly) at the Mall of America here, has a gigantic seahorse display right now. It’s impressive. Although, I’m sure nothing like the fabulous Monterey Bay Aquarium. They are pretty neat creatures, for sure.