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Seahorses Fun facts to impress your friends and break the ice at parties.Seahorses are fishes that belong to the family Syngnathidae, which also includes seadragons andpipefishes. Although they may seem avant-garde, seahorses have looked this strange for at least 40million years. Their genus name, Hippocampus, literally means horse-like sea-monster.Dirty dancing. At the culmination of an elaborate courtship dance, the female seahorse transferseggs to the male's belly pouch, making him pregnant. While the female may have similar escapadeswith additional fathers, daddy seahorse broods the eggs for two to three weeks until they hatch.Why the long face? Seahorse populations worldwide are threatened by overcollecting for use astraditional medicines, aquarium fish, and curios. Over 20 million wild seahorses a year are collectedfor the medicine trade in China alone where seahorses are believed to cure a wide spectrum of ills.Rode hard and put away wet. In response to an increasing demand for seahorses, seahorse farmshave sprung up in Australia and Hawaii. There is a hope that this mariculture will reduce pressure onalready stressed seahorse populations. Copyright © 2015 Dawn Witherington • www.drawnbydawn.com