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(Also, IS, do you not have a "crack" tag? Did you not foresee that this day would come? I think it's in the Book of Revelations between the locusts and the seven-headed dragon.)
Edit: now with some unnecessary animations in the comments section. Seahorse Jooster - it's even more annoying as a gif!
Seahorses have an unusual reproductive strategy.


(Inspired by this photo of seahorses. Seriously how cute are seahorses with their intertwining tails and general glompiness?)
The gestation is also a challenging time for the pregnant seahorse's mate.

(The Snakehead fish can breathe air, climb trees and wipe out entire ecosystems.)

The mate visits the gestating father daily and performs a ritual reminiscent of the courtship. The father, meanwhile, produces massive amounts of the hormone prolactin to nourish the young.

Between 9 and 45 days later (depending on the species), the father gives birth. Seahorses can have as many as 1500 young,which are called fry.* The young are perfect miniature replicas of the adults.

*Science!canon. They are not, however, necessarily called Stephen.
(OK, huge apologies. If you put your head in your hands for a while and breathe deeply, it will probably be OK.)
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Date: 2012-05-14 09:29 am (UTC)LOL at the white mess jacket xD The aunt fish are hilarious!
Glomp!Jooster!Seahorse is super adorable :D
(I study animal sciences and always squeed so hard when we were talking of fish babies, aka fry :P)
Teeeeeheeee =D
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Date: 2012-05-14 01:40 pm (UTC)We'll dress them up in spats and greaveses
Or Pirate shirts with puffy sleeveses
Fish Head Aunt Agatha
Li'l Bertie Jr in all his sartorial splendor.
Splendid.
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Date: 2012-05-15 01:46 am (UTC)Love the aunt fish, esp. Aunt A. Aunt D is quite blunt, what with her comments re: ovipositor.
I just love it, love it, love it!
And I'm pimping it on my LJ, so there!
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Date: 2012-05-15 03:57 pm (UTC)Shall I compare thee to a Jooster crack?
Thou are not as seahorsey or pregnant.
Tiny Jeeveses Bertie's fashion sense lack,
one tiny Bertie hides from Jeeves and aunt.
The Lady 529
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Date: 2012-05-20 04:13 pm (UTC)thats so lovely and CUTE!!!!! I had stupid smile plastered all over my faceXDDDD You have spiffing ideas you know? Little fellows shimmering alongXDDD awwww
ps-I know restaurant with huge aquarium full of that big ugly/agatha-fishes XD I bet they look at me with evil eyes during mealXD
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