these marine biologists are hunting for
an almost mythical creature it has the
head of a horse the tail of a serpent
and an insect like armor of bony plates
but it’s really a fish the niceness
eaters
it’s a little male scratch small as you
can see it’s frequent it’s interesting
because a lot of people think seahorses
are annika fairytale not many people
actually believe see Moses exist there
are only about 35 species of seahorses
and biologists fear for their survival
these fish are extremely fragile they
only eat live brine shrimp and are
sensitive to small changes in their
habitats pollution boats and fluctuating
water temperatures can easily destroy
whole colonies that’s why marine
biologists have come here to South
Africa to study one of the rarest
seahorses the NIH’s none they have no
idea how many niceness seahorses there
are but they exist nowhere else on earth
mark NAAFI is part of a team of
volunteer divers trying to map knowledge
to seahorse habitats the seals is on the
endangered species list not not because
of the numbers because we didn’t
actually know before this project
harmony they were but because they only
occurred in these two histories one
natural disaster could want the mark
County and seahorse’s is easy the water
off NIDA is under 14 degrees Celsius and
visibility close to zero
the divers follow a slender line that
delineates the search area then comb
through it thick carpet of seaweed sea
horses like chameleons change color to
hide the male’s wrap their slender tails
around the green stalks and sway like
the weeds
the divers carefully measure each little
seahorse and record observations and
notebooks the fish are replaced where
they’re found to minimize any disruption
in your feeding and mating habits pairs
mate for life
the female providing the eggs to the
male who fertilizes them in his pouch
and carries the young and till they
hatch I guess the the unique
reproductive strategy that that they
have with the the male falling pregnant
and giving birth to the young I think
that’s very unusual there’s not many
animal species not many fish species
that have that reversal in sex roles
once the biologists know more about
these fragile seahorses they hope to
come up with better ways to protect them
an almost mythical creature it has the
head of a horse the tail of a serpent
and an insect like armor of bony plates
but it’s really a fish the niceness
eaters
it’s a little male scratch small as you
can see it’s frequent it’s interesting
because a lot of people think seahorses
are annika fairytale not many people
actually believe see Moses exist there
are only about 35 species of seahorses
and biologists fear for their survival
these fish are extremely fragile they
only eat live brine shrimp and are
sensitive to small changes in their
habitats pollution boats and fluctuating
water temperatures can easily destroy
whole colonies that’s why marine
biologists have come here to South
Africa to study one of the rarest
seahorses the NIH’s none they have no
idea how many niceness seahorses there
are but they exist nowhere else on earth
mark NAAFI is part of a team of
volunteer divers trying to map knowledge
to seahorse habitats the seals is on the
endangered species list not not because
of the numbers because we didn’t
actually know before this project
harmony they were but because they only
occurred in these two histories one
natural disaster could want the mark
County and seahorse’s is easy the water
off NIDA is under 14 degrees Celsius and
visibility close to zero
the divers follow a slender line that
delineates the search area then comb
through it thick carpet of seaweed sea
horses like chameleons change color to
hide the male’s wrap their slender tails
around the green stalks and sway like
the weeds
the divers carefully measure each little
seahorse and record observations and
notebooks the fish are replaced where
they’re found to minimize any disruption
in your feeding and mating habits pairs
mate for life
the female providing the eggs to the
male who fertilizes them in his pouch
and carries the young and till they
hatch I guess the the unique
reproductive strategy that that they
have with the the male falling pregnant
and giving birth to the young I think
that’s very unusual there’s not many
animal species not many fish species
that have that reversal in sex roles
once the biologists know more about
these fragile seahorses they hope to
come up with better ways to protect them
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