Except for carbs, very few predators eat sea horses - they are too bony.
Male pregnancy lets the female produce more eggs quickly without nurturing the last batch.
Female sea horses compete with each other for male mating partners.
Sea horses are usually found in warm, shallow water among seagrass beds. They situate themselves near deep, fast-running channels that provide them with plankton.
To avoid being swept away by the current, they wrap their long tails around nearby vegetation. Their teals are prehensile.
The female releases her eggs into a pouch on the male's abdomen. As the eggs attach themselves to the spongy pouch wall, he fertilizes them and nourishes them with a special fluid secretion. After gestation, about fifty young are released from his pouch.
Found uin Indo-Australia; the Atlantic coasts of Europe, Africa, and North America; and the Pacific coast of North America.
Little is known about its status, but shrimp trawlers catch thousands around the full moon when sea horses congregate to breed. Shrimp trawls also damage the shallow seabad that forms the sea horse's home.