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The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York says it has reached a consent decree in a lawsuit brought against an Orange County horse training center.
Frank Yewell Whiteley Jr. (January 31, 1915 – May 2, 2008) was a Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse trainer. Born and raised on a farm in Centreville, Maryland, Whiteley grew up around horses and from a very early age was intent on racing them.
Hippocampus bargibanti, also known as Bargibant's seahorse or the pygmy seahorse, is a seahorse of the family Syngnathidae found in the central Indo-Pacific area. [3]This pygmy seahorse is tiny—usually less than 2 centimetres (0.79 in) in size—and lives exclusively on gorgonian sea-fans, as its coloration and physical features expertly mimic the coral for camouflage. [4]
The first pygmy seahorse known to science was Hippocampus bargibanti. At least six more species were named after 2000. The first species discovered lives exclusively on fan corals and matches their colour and appearance. So effective is pygmy seahorse camouflage that it was discovered only when a host gorgonian was being examined in a laboratory.
At first, only older horses were sent to the program so they would be easier to adopt, but it eventually turned into a much larger program, inspiring similar programs to start at prisons in Los Lunas and Santa Fe. The BLM paid $1.85 per horse per day to fulfill a boarding fee and $56 per horse once they were trained. [5]
Karrie Saydah was picking up her two donkeys and two horses that she had brought to the center when she was forced to evacuate her home at 3:45 a.m. on Wednesday morning. "It was so scary, a fire ...
Photographs of seahorses taken by scuba divers revealed evidence of a long-lost species of marine worm that hasn’t been seen since the mid-1950s, scientists say.
The subfamily Hippocampinae is named after the seahorse genus Hippocampus, which is derived from the Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippokampos), a compound of ἵππος, "horse" and κάμπος, "sea monster". The morphologically intermediate nature of pygmy pipehorses is reflected in the name "pipehorse", a combination of the first ...