Ze Frank is listed in Wikipedia as a performance artist. I am now totally intrigued by him having seen the video he made called "True Facts About The Seahorse".
Here it is:
Well....I hope you learned something.
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My sentiments exactly
I love George Takei. And his fans.
He posts the best things on his Facebook page. I couldn't resist reposting this today - an asinine question on a kid's test that the kid answers in the most hilarious way.
I mean who would choose barnacles over seahorses?? Just dumb.
Seahorses rule. The end.
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Seahorses versus Barnacles
Project Seahorse has been working with Imperial College London and the Zoological Society of London to investigate the seahorse trade in West Africa. Kate West, a graduate from Imperial College and one of Project Seahorse's researchers saw the seahorse in a trap when she was travelling with local fishermen. She managed to talk the fishermen into releasing it but not before she had filmed it.
You can read more about the story here at the University of British Columbia's website.
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West African seahorse filmed for the first time
Pontohi Pygmy Seahorse from liquidguru on Vimeo.
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Tiny Pontohi Seahorse
Here is a delightful item from snaulkter - handmade father and baby seahorses. Made from new fleece and recycled stuffing, these toys are durable and child-friendly.
Snaulkter specializes in seahorses - she has many different designs in her Etsy shop with some really original fabric and colour choices.
As you can see from the pictures below the babies fit inside the father's pouch. Click on each thumbnail to see a full-size photograph of the seahorses.
Thanks so much to Stephanie Campion for sending me this link!
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Handmade father seahorse and babies on Etsy
The article is called "Best Animal Dads" and I'm happy to see that the seahorse is the first featured father!
As you will know if you're a regular visitor to The Seahorse Shop, the male seahorse is a great father because he actually carries the fertilized eggs from the female and gives birth to live babies. In our family the seahorse is the symbol of my husband being a wonderful dad to our daughter and is the inspiration for this website.
Click here to read the article at the National Geographic website.
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Happy Father’s Day!
It is illegal to disturb, injure or kill seahorses in the UK and they are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. The seagrass beds which is the spiny seahorses' natural habitat is also being protected by Poole Harbour Commissioners who have placed buoys around the seagrass beds and a Southern Sea Fisheries bylaw prohibits fishing there.
As yet the actual cause of the seahorses' deaths is unknown and some put the blame on a combination of the recent inclement weather in the UK and seahorses becoming stranded in the harbour at low tide. Natural England and other conservation agencies continue to investigate the problem.
You can read the full article here. Below is a video of a male spiny seahorse from YouTube.
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Spiny seahorses threatened in southern England
He pumps them out of the sac in his belly which starts off full and empties out with each push.
The cutest part of the video (IMHO) is when he swims over to the female seahorse after giving birth. Too cute!
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Male seahorse gives birth
She has joined forces with All Modern.com to give away the gorgeous pillow shown to the left. There are four different ways to enter the draw:
You have to enter by any of the ways shown above by Monday 25th January at 6pm (I'm guessing that's EST since Katie is in South Carolina). That's it! Good luck everyone!
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Seahorse pillow giveaway
The video is from Scubazoo - a site devoted to marine filming and photography.
I get the impression that the flounder wasn't too interested in eating a bony seahorse!
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Seahorse escapes flounder attack
