Sunday, November 7

Facts about Seahorses

Seahorse Facts


Let me tell you all about seahorses! Seahorses live mainly in shallow coastal areas and are found in both tropical and temperate waters worldwide. Seahorses do not have stomachs, so they must eat a lot because their food goes straight through their digestive tract. The adult seahorse can eat up to fifty times a day!!

 


Facts about seahorses:

1. Seahorses can get up to 14 inches long.

2. Seahorses eat small crustaceans.

3. They are very slow swimmers.

4. They don’t look like fish, but they do! However, they do not have scales like fish do.

5. Seahorses can live up to five years.

6. They have excellent camouflage and can hide well from most predators.  

7. There are about 46 species of seahorses.

8. Just like humans have unique fingerprints, each seahorse has a small crown called a coral net, which is different on each seahorse.

 


What is your favorite kind of sea creature?


 

Books about seahorses:

1. Facts About the Seahorse by Lisa Strattin

2. Seahorses by Valerie Bodden

3. Goodnight, Seahorse by Carly Fletcher

4. Secret Seahorse by Stella Blackstone

5. Counting Sea Life with the Little Seahorse by Sheri Fink and Derek Kent

6. Seahorses For Beginners by Mike French

Parents, please ensure all books are child-friendly before reading them to your child/children.



 




 

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