Fillmore Progress | 1936-10-23 | Page 7 | Sea Horses

sea horses sea horses ore are peculiar in ID many ways their bodies are coveted with armor plates and spines which in some species are prolonged into elesby laps flaps which look like sea weed they haie hae no tall tin fin and their heir long ong prehensile tall is usually curled ev even n when not attached it Is used to hold the animal to the cants or corald corals among which it 11 lives unlike other fishes thi tbt lr ir heads are at right angles to their boales bodles making them look touch much more like chess knights than lishes fishes like the Pipe fishes to which they are related the male cariles canies the eggs in a brood pouch located at the base of hi tall some time after a batch of young hatch the male compresses the muscles around the pouch and brings forth the young one at a time these lie Is said to watch over until they become entirely self sufficient