Male seahorse giving birth at The Deep Hull

http://www.thedeep.co.uk Filmed at The Deep, Hull, Yorkshire. The world's only submarium is home to over 3500 fish, including sharks and rays. As you may know, it is the male seahorse that incubates the eggs and then gives birth. This was filmed a while ago in our quarantine when our pair of Custom seized seahorse gave birth. There are many illegally imported seahorses. When they are discovered by Customs and Excise, London Zoo aquarium at ZSL help out by housing and taking care of them. There were so many this time they could not take them all. We were able to help out by taking this mature breeding pair.
Many seahorses are on the IUCN Red list classified as VULNERABLE and have shown population declines of 20% over the last 10 years. Many species haven't enough information about them to be able to manage their exploitation.
Project Seahorse is an orgainisation that serve as the formal IUCN Redlist authority on seahorses. They also pioneer many different schemes to help reduce these population declines. Using holistic approaches involving local people, communicating with major consumers and developing socio-economic solutions to the threats, Project Seahorse are at the forefront of seahorse conservation. For more information visit www.zsl.org/conservation/regions/asia/pr­oject-seahorse/

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[EmIsLegend]

Haha, how did they all fit in there? Funny how the dad practically faints in the end, then mom is ready for more action lol

[Mika Chan]

In my head, all I thought of was him sneezing

[cokekid7]

its a baby cannon!!!

[Tiff Bee]

oh my goodness, that seemed PAINFUL, the female was ready,,, she'd have to carry her own babies "I'm sorry girl" Welp, hope he relaxed with pilgrim soap company bath salts. Their products are great. wwwpilgrimsoapcompanycom

[Hanna Gonzales]

Giving birth LIKE A BOSS.

[Jumbomasters]

dafuq

[forevame69]

Wow I never knew this

[shane oliver]

happy fathers day everybody

[NemesisAnother]

bless you.

bless you.

bless you.

bless you.

bless you....

[Nancy Cartagena]

That is the coolest thing ever!

[Cuppie Cake]

:O Omg this is so amazing how the hell all those babies fit in there

It's like 2000 babies I feel

[Maria Misery]

Omfg same v