Thursday 7 November 2019

pygmy seahorses

I have been learning how to take notes and then write an information report.
I enjoyed finishing it.
Have you made an information report before?


Pygmy seahorses

Pygmy seahorse are the smallest seahorse in the world and are usually 2cm long.

They live on a coral called sea fan. Orange seahorses live on orange sea fan and purple seahorses live on purple sea fan but no one knew if Pygmy seahorses find a coral to match their colour or change their to match the coral? So in 2014 scientist went to the Philippines and found some orange mating seahorses and rushed them back to their research base in San francisco, California. They watched them do their daily courtship dance then they watched baby seahorses pop out of the father’s brood pouch. All the baby seahorses looked a dull brown colour but what would happen if they provided a purple sea fan to offsprings of orange seahorses? Then the got their answer, they turned purple. They also grew calcified bumps called tubercles to match the corals texture.

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