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Find the two identical seahorses on this page.
The seahorse looks like it is made up of many different animals. Unscramble each word to find out the odd parts of the tiny seahorse. Stuck on some? Keep reading this page and you will find the answers. It has:
In most animals, the female of the species carries the young. Not so with the strange little seahorse. When the female is ready to lay her eggs, she wraps her tail around a male seahorse’s neck. Then, she deposits her eggs into a special pouch on the male seahorse’s abdomen. The eggs hatch and grow inside this little pouch and the male’s mid-section gets very round and big. When the little seahorses are big enough, the pouch starts to contract and the baby seahorses are pushed into the wide watery world.
One seahorse eye can look up while the other looks down. One eye can look for food while the other is on the lookout for predators. Another kind of animal that has eyes that can move independently is the chameleon.
Seahorses look like they are wearing armor. Actually, they have a shiny external skeleton made up of interlocking bony plates—like an armadillo! Standards Link: Life Science: Animals have structures that serve different functions in growth, survival and reproduction.
Number the pictures in order to show how baby seahorses are born.
The long snout of a seahorse gives the animal its horsey appearance. Unlike a horse, the seahorse mouth does not open and close or have any teeth. The seahorse uses its snout like a little vacuum cleaner, sucking up its favorite foods of brine shrimp,
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Sequence information found in text.
A seahorse’s tail is like a monkey tail. Scientists call these prehensile tails because they can grasp like a hand. The seahorse’s tail helps it to hang onto sea plants while it waits for food to swim by. Seahorses also hang onto each other with their tails.
baby eels, and other tiny sea creatures.
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