{"id":1818,"date":"2026-05-05T12:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/cikavinky\/morskyi-konyk-tato-narodzhuie\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:15:24","slug":"morskyi-konyk-tato-narodzhuie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/cikavinky\/morskyi-konyk-tato-narodzhuie\/","title":{"rendered":"In seahorses, the father gives birth to the babies."},"content":{"rendered":"

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In seahorses, the father gives birth to the babies.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Imagine a world where the father carries the babies himself and gives birth to them himself. Sounds like fiction? But in the ocean, such a world really exists - among seahorses! These are the only animals on the planet where the father carries the babies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a mother grasshopper meets her father, she lays up to 2,000 tiny eggs right in a special pouch on his belly \u2014 like a kangaroo\u2019s. Then the father carries these eggs for 2-4 weeks: swings them, feeds them through the bag walls, and protects them from predators. And then a great miracle happens \u2014 the father starts \u00abpushing\u00bb with his belly, like a real mother in labor, and hundreds of miniature grasshoppers jump out of his pouch one after another. Each baby is the size of a grain of rice!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seahorses are amazing. They have no scales\u2014just bony plates, like a tiny knight in armor. They swim upright, head up, slowly moving their transparent dorsal fin\u2014as many as 35 times a second. And the seahorse's eyes are like a chameleon's: the left eye looks forward, and the right eye looks back. They can simultaneously search for food and watch for an enemy sneaking up on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And seahorses are faithful. The male and female choose each other for life and \u00abgreet\u00bb each other every morning with a special dance, intertwining their tails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So if someone says, "Only mothers always give birth to babies," think of the seahorse. Nature is different, and it's a true miracle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More interesting facts about animals at on the category page<\/a> \u2728<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n

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In seahorses, it's the other way around - the father carries and gives birth to the babies, not the mother.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1817,"parent":1782,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-title","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1818","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"campaignId":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2079,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1818\/revisions\/2079"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}