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As many as 250 babies can be released during the delivery.
Humans are used to a 40-week gestation period (give or take) but when it comes to elephants, moms-to-be need to be a lot more patient. African elephants are the largest land animal on Earth, and ...
For Jade, an elephant at the St. Louis Zoo, pregnancy means staying in shape and participating in a variety of prenatal exercises meant to make her gestation and childbirth easier and safer for ...
The Barbour's seahorse feeds on small shrimp, crustaceans, calanoid copepods and decapod larvae, but has also been known to ingest the larvae of polychaetes and fish. Individuals have well-developed spines such as their sharp eye, nose, and double cheek spine.
The hedgehog seahorse (Hippocampus spinosissimus) is a species of fish of the family Syngnathidae. It inhabits coastal waters from India and Sri Lanka to Taiwan and northern Australia . [ 1 ] It is threatened by overfishing , as both targeted catch and bycatch .
This species is ovoviviparous, with males carrying eggs in a brood pouch before giving birth to live young. [1] Individuals reach sexual maturity at 11 centimetres (4.3 in). [ 3 ] The specific name and the common name honours the Indian physician, linguist and ichthyologist Dr. Surgeon-Major Atmaram Sadashiv "Muscati" Jayakar (1844–1911).
Hippocampus coronatus, commonly known as the high-crowned seahorse or crowned seahorse, [3] is a species of fish of the family Syngnathidae. It is endemic to the Pacific coastal waters of Japan (found in shallow coastal waters from Tokyo bay and Sagami bay ), where it lives among Zostera seagrasses .
The baby elephant flops its trunk up in the air, video shows. ... Milo’s birth is the first time an elephant has given birth so close to the main buildings of the Ithumba preserve.