Page 120 - (DK) Super Shark Encyclopedia: And Other Creatures of the Deep

Gills extract oxygen from surrounding seawater

Swim bladder is filled with gas and keeps the seahorse buoyant in the water

Digested food is absorbed into the bloodstream from the intestine

Seahorse family life is unusual because the father is the one who
a long courtship during which the pair dance together in the water,
gives birth. Like all animals, the female supplies the eggs but, after
Jaws are fixed into a rigid tube so the seahorse cannot chew A seahorse feeds by sucking

SLY SIPPER in animals called copepods. It eats so delicately that it hardly disturbs the water—so it can get close to its tiny blind prey without them sensing any movement.

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Tiny mouth can accept only the smallest of prey

SEAHORSE she lays them in a pouch in his belly. Once he has fertilized them, the eggs become embedded in the protective spongy lining of his pouch until they hatch weeks later. Then the male seahorse releases the babies into the ocean. Eyes can move independently of each other and in all directions, like a chameleon