2. Introduction
There are millions of different sea
animals in the GIANT ocean; Whales,
Dolphins, Jellyfish, Sea lions and
tropical fish.
In this report you will find out all about
a whole new different animal...
The Sea horse.
Where does it live?
What does it eat?
How does it catch its prey?
What are its predators?
Find out more facts just turn over to
the next page and you’ll find anything
about a sea horse.
3.
4. Appearance
Sea horses are fish. they live in water
breath through gills, and have a swim
bladder.They also have a neck and
snout that points down.
Sea horses can change colour very
quickly and match any surroundings in
which it finds itself. They have been
known to turn bright red to match
floating debris.
Sea horses have excellent eye sight
and their eyes are able to move
independently on either side of their
head. This means they can look
backwards and forwards at the same
time! This is particularly useful as they
hunt for food by sight. Sea horses
have long thin snouts allowing them to
probe into nocks and crannies for food.
when they find food they suck it up
through their snouts like a vacuum
cleaner. They are not able to chew and
5. have to disintegrate the food as they
eat it, they don’t have any teeth or
stomach so they have to eat constantly
due to the fast process of digestion.
Movement
6. Their bodies are made up of hard
external bony plates that are fused
together with a fleshy covering. They
do not have scales. sea horses have a
prehensile tail, to grip onto eel grass
and other weeds and prevents them by
being washed away by strong currents
and waves. Sea horses are poor
swimmers. They rely on their dorsal fin
that beats at
30-70 times per second to propel it alo
Habitat
7. Seahorses live in shallow weedy areas
especially eel grass in the winter, they
move into the deeper waters to escape
rough weather. Sea horses are mostly
found in the tropical oceans of the sea.
They usually live in coral reefs. They
also live in grass beds and mud
slopes, rocks and kelp. Seahorses live
in the North and South of America.
Four sea horse species live in the
south and north of America, and two
species live that live in the European
coastal waters. The rest of the species
all live in the Indian Ocean and the
western of the Pacific ocean.
Reproduction
8. The male sea horses are the ones that
carry their eggs. He will have them in
his body for up to 45 days and they will
emerge fully-grown. Less than 1% of
all young survive to the age of
maturity. This could be why the female
deposits up to 1500 eggs during
mating process.
Diet
9. Seahorses eat a lot of different food.
some of them are Mysis shrimp, brine
shrimp and other small crustacean.
Baby sea horses eat about 3,000 bits
of food every day. Adults eat up to 50
times a day.
Family
10. There are more than 40 species of
seahorses...
- common seahorses
- Big belly seahorses
- Pygmy seahorses
- Pacific sea horses
- Leafy sea dragon
- Pipe fish
But the leafy sea dragon and weedy sea
dragon is related to sea horses.
Predators
11. - crabs
- vicious fish
- Humans :Humans are predators to
them because Chinese use them to
make medicine.
Conclusion
From this report you now know most of
the facts about sea horses.
12. We can help them by...
- don’t make medicine out of them.
- don’t fish too much fish instead you
can
fish once or twice a week.
There are lots of ways to hep the sea
horses.
Refences
Websites
-www.wikipedia.com
-marinelife.about.com
