Got to admit, I was scrolling through the comments... Saw your comment, and the psychology nerd in me thought it was funny, so I upvoted it.
Then... a little while after scrolling past your comment, the Greek Mythology, etymology, and taxonomy nerds in me all suddenly said,
"Hol up. You missed the real joke."
For those who don't know... The hippocampus is a part of the body. It's a part of the brain, and is supposedly responsible for learning and memory, among other things.
However, in Greek Mythology, the hippocampus is a sort of mer-horse creature. It's half fish, half horse.
Etymologically, it comes from "hippos", meaning "horse", and "kampos", meaning "sea monster".
It's also the taxonomical genus belonging to seahorses, since hippocampi were the mythical horses of the sea.
Evidently, my hippocampus was slow in remembering all that.
I was thinking if the seahorse was considered a fish or not?
What constitutes being a fish?
Edit: I wrote think instead of thinking like English wasn’t my only language.
Way too many responses to get back to but from reading them all I have come to the conclusion that fish is an arbitrary term, everything and nothing can be a fish.
100% ÷ by 8 letters = 12.5% per letter.
Sea: 3 letters x 12.5% = 37.5%
Horse: 5 letters x12.5% = 62.5%
.
Its more "Horse" than it is "Sea".
Hell. Its as much "A Ho" as it is "Sea".
God you remind me of an executive producer who insisted that her Saturday morning educational show wasn't wrong when it called a whaleshark a mammal. When I pointed out to her that it's a shark, she said "it's a whale, it's in the name dear."
It is an Osteichthyes fish meaning it’s related to and classed along other bony fish. I think it’s genetic similarity compared to other species through phylogenetic studies is how we consider what to group which individual species amongst one another in order to properly classify them. That is how we know how most life has evolved on earth. It has answered a lot of questions like how birds are actually dinosaurs, whales came from meat eating terrestrial artiodactyls and other crazy stuff like that.
I'm only basing this on an episode of QI, but they said basically "there's no such thing as fish" all the things we call fish are so radically different that there's no justification for calling them the same kind of animal. A salmon is more genetically similar to a camel than it is to a hagfish.
"no such thing as a fish" is actually the name of the QI podcast. Hosted by the QI elves. If anyone is interested in the most random of information check it out !
But in this instance it's actually true from a cladist point of view. Either there's no such thing as a fish or humans, elephants, mice, birds, lizards, the list goes on and on are fish.
Sea horses are ray finned fish in the genus *Hippocampus*. There are about 50 species. They are related to pipefish and sea dragons, which “give birth” in the same way, and are more distantly related to fish like trumpet fish and sea moths. All of these animals are characterized by elongated fused jaw bones, which give sea horses their distinctive snouts. Ray finned fish are the most diverse type of fish, with over 90% of all known species. Other types of fish were more successful at various points in earths history, such as the lobe finned fish from which humans and other land animals are descended.
Primarily, being ectothermic vertebrates that breath through gills is what defines a fish.
Other than that, there’s not really any traits all fish have in common. Like, moray eels have a second set of jaws, sharks can full-on sense heartbeats, parrotfish can bite through coral like it’s nothing, and anglerfish reproduce via males literally becoming parasites on the female. Some fish have literal teeth covering their bodies, while others don’t technically have teeth at all. Other kinds have excessive numbers of fins, whereas a few lack them almost entirely. Heck, several fish(like this seahorse here) are covered completely in bony armor, but there’s one fish that doesn’t even have a skeleton(or a jaw, for that matter).
In short, fish are really, really diverse. It’s wild.
Fish are 1) aquatic, 2) craniate, 3) gill-bearing animals 4) that lack limbs with digits.
being craniate means they have a head with a cranium, which contains their brain. It also makes them vertebrates. Gill-bearing and lacking limbs with digits sets them apart from mammals (such as whales and porpoises) and amphibians. Aquatic is self-explanatory.
They evolved around 3m years ago at a unique time where volcano eruptions had raised the sea bed created vast shallow seas of coral. This is the only environment they're found in.
Fewer than five infant seahorses in every 1,000 survive to adulthood.
[Source](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/seahorse-fathers-take-reins-in-childbirth#:~:text=Fewer%20than%20five%20infant%20seahorses,the%20National%20Aquarium%20in%20Baltimore.)
Edit - It seems a lot of people keep saying the same thing "but that's in the wild. This isn't the wild it's an aquarium." If you read to the bottom of the article (source above), you will see that the technology to raise seahorses in captivity is relatively new (maybe 20ish years at this point. Don't have exact date it became possible). That's because of how difficult it is. Not to get the seahorses to breed, but to help the offspring survive. I don't have numbers for you on this question. But it looks like it's tricky breeding them so a lot of them still probably pass away. Sorry I don't have a more definitive answer for captivity survival rates. Looks like it will depend on how well they are taken care of, and then if they were bred to be sold or bred and released into the wild.
I tried counting for like 10 seconds but there’s way too many. I just read a few other comments and then googled a couple numbers. Definitely makes me wanna get some though lol
Pleasantly surprised no one argued that this is a female. I was expecting to see some dumb. My faith in humanity has gone up, say, 0.01%, give or take.
nope, in seahorses the pregnancy happens in the male, where the female uses a tube called the ovipositor, (which is also a sex toy so careful if you google it) to lay the eggs in the pouch of the male, after which the male inseminates them and carries them for 2 to 3 weeks after which the video happens for birth
(source: [https://animalcorner.org/seahorse-reproduction/](https://animalcorner.org/seahorse-reproduction/) )
*[laughs in Hyena](https://www.genderinclusivebiology.com/newsletter/all-female-spotted-hyenas-have-functional-penises-and-mount-both-male-amp-female-hyenas-gender-showcase-9-12#:~:text=A%20female%20spotted%20hyena%20mates,male%20inserts%20his%20own%20penis.&text=During%20birth%2C%20the%20embryo%20traverses,a%20sharp%20bend%20in%20it.)*
If you were dumb you wouldn’t have sought to gain clarity on something you did not understand. You would have just wrongly argued that it was a female. Give yourself some credit.
What? Someone not knowing that male sea horses give birth doesn't make them dumb, and it should have no effect on your faith in humanity.
It's just some random fun fact that some people happen to have heard and others haven't.
What's dumb in thinking a female is giving birth to their offspring as is the case in 99.9999% of the animals? You think people are just born with this random tid bit that it's the male Sea Horse which gets pregnant?
Shiiiiit. That’s only if you have a common type. Some places they go for 40$ that’s 80000$. If only 5% survives that’s still 4000$. Now imagine if they were rare colors and worth 150$ and you kept them all alive that would be 300,000$!! Or what about https://seahorsesavvy.com/collections/seahorses/products/new-captive-bred-dark-silver-saddled-erectus-seahorse-2-pair-special. Those are 400$ each (800k$) on sale from 480$ (960k$)….: these things have to be super hard to breed or something.
Edit: just read you get a pair for that price so just half those numbers and your still balling out of control.
I used to have guppies that bred like crazy. The filter sucks them up and keeps them in the little pool of water inside of the filter. They usually survive inside and also can’t get eaten by their mother or other fish. So the filter actually isn’t that bad.
Just scoop them out. Idk if you ever looked at a filter up close but they usually end up In filter pads or anywhere really. You just scoop them out though. It’s hard for them to get to the parts that would actually hurt them. The real problem is mommy and daddy horse eating them or at least it’s that way with regular fish
I feel like a joke could be made about female's evolution for birthing versus male evolution for birthing...
Women: one at a time, it should be a drawn out process where we can connect emotionally and bond fully with our offspring.
Male: fuck it, I wanna see how far I can shoot them out of me! The more the better!!! As long as they dont stay too close. Oh, and I get bored easy so think like machine gun spray and over in seconds.
This dude squirts
babies
That looks like
Babies
But also looks like
[удалено]
r/HolUp
r/WaitAMinute
Something ain’t right
What the hell goin' on up in here?!
Yo. Pause
[удалено]
Pause, work together and pay attention
r/cursed_comments
r/wholesome
I can assure that that does not mean what you think it means.
sea men
Homie wyd here? you were supposed to comment in kgbtr
Babies
i mean yeah doesn’t every dude do that
Seahorses are stored in the balls.
Yup.
I'll think you'll find it is in the Hippocampus.
Got to admit, I was scrolling through the comments... Saw your comment, and the psychology nerd in me thought it was funny, so I upvoted it. Then... a little while after scrolling past your comment, the Greek Mythology, etymology, and taxonomy nerds in me all suddenly said, "Hol up. You missed the real joke." For those who don't know... The hippocampus is a part of the body. It's a part of the brain, and is supposedly responsible for learning and memory, among other things. However, in Greek Mythology, the hippocampus is a sort of mer-horse creature. It's half fish, half horse. Etymologically, it comes from "hippos", meaning "horse", and "kampos", meaning "sea monster". It's also the taxonomical genus belonging to seahorses, since hippocampi were the mythical horses of the sea. Evidently, my hippocampus was slow in remembering all that.
I skeet skeet muffhugga
[удалено]
It just amazes me that fish even took this shape. It’s so radically different from any other group. It doesn’t even look like a fish.
I was thinking if the seahorse was considered a fish or not? What constitutes being a fish? Edit: I wrote think instead of thinking like English wasn’t my only language. Way too many responses to get back to but from reading them all I have come to the conclusion that fish is an arbitrary term, everything and nothing can be a fish.
Guys, it's clearly a horse. It's in the name...
This guy is on another level of thinking
Yeah but, so small, should be seapony
More like seapuny
that’s a seapun you just did there
So glad you sea it
Everyone in this thread is a dad and you know it
Lil seabastian
It's a sea. It's in the name. Geeez.
Seahorse. 50 % sea, 50 % horse.
100% ÷ by 8 letters = 12.5% per letter. Sea: 3 letters x 12.5% = 37.5% Horse: 5 letters x12.5% = 62.5% . Its more "Horse" than it is "Sea". Hell. Its as much "A Ho" as it is "Sea".
[r/theydidthemath](https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/)
Good calculations there bud
Come on now we all know it’s a ho.
Don't you see it's a S>!ea!!rs!
God you remind me of an executive producer who insisted that her Saturday morning educational show wasn't wrong when it called a whaleshark a mammal. When I pointed out to her that it's a shark, she said "it's a whale, it's in the name dear."
I see no problem with that logic
But can she see why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch?
And a Starfish is clearly a star
Once again, I see no problem with that logic
It is an Osteichthyes fish meaning it’s related to and classed along other bony fish. I think it’s genetic similarity compared to other species through phylogenetic studies is how we consider what to group which individual species amongst one another in order to properly classify them. That is how we know how most life has evolved on earth. It has answered a lot of questions like how birds are actually dinosaurs, whales came from meat eating terrestrial artiodactyls and other crazy stuff like that.
[удалено]
the fuck’d you just call me bro
just swim away bro, it's not worth it
Hahaha
A sarcophagus-pterodactyl I think
I thought they just called you ostentatious
This exchange right here is Reddit at its best.
Thank you for the further details, When I studied fish I specialized in siluriformes!
It is good to see an expert :) It must have been fun to study all those catfish, from plecos to pangasius.
Dod you mean ‘it is good to *sea* an expert’?
Wild! Thanks for the explanation!
They are defined as: "cold-blooded, finned, aquatic vertebrates that respire by passing oxygenated water over gills".
Fish
No, probably Wikipedia
I'm only basing this on an episode of QI, but they said basically "there's no such thing as fish" all the things we call fish are so radically different that there's no justification for calling them the same kind of animal. A salmon is more genetically similar to a camel than it is to a hagfish.
Well technically a camel is also a type of fish.
"no such thing as a fish" is actually the name of the QI podcast. Hosted by the QI elves. If anyone is interested in the most random of information check it out !
You don't want to believe anything you've heard on QI without independent verification. The 'researchers' on that show are a total joke.
But in this instance it's actually true from a cladist point of view. Either there's no such thing as a fish or humans, elephants, mice, birds, lizards, the list goes on and on are fish.
So where do seahorses belong? I’m sure this could be googled but this is more interesting.
Sea horses are ray finned fish in the genus *Hippocampus*. There are about 50 species. They are related to pipefish and sea dragons, which “give birth” in the same way, and are more distantly related to fish like trumpet fish and sea moths. All of these animals are characterized by elongated fused jaw bones, which give sea horses their distinctive snouts. Ray finned fish are the most diverse type of fish, with over 90% of all known species. Other types of fish were more successful at various points in earths history, such as the lobe finned fish from which humans and other land animals are descended.
There's no such thing as a 'fish'
Birds aren’t real also
I love that podcast.
Primarily, being ectothermic vertebrates that breath through gills is what defines a fish. Other than that, there’s not really any traits all fish have in common. Like, moray eels have a second set of jaws, sharks can full-on sense heartbeats, parrotfish can bite through coral like it’s nothing, and anglerfish reproduce via males literally becoming parasites on the female. Some fish have literal teeth covering their bodies, while others don’t technically have teeth at all. Other kinds have excessive numbers of fins, whereas a few lack them almost entirely. Heck, several fish(like this seahorse here) are covered completely in bony armor, but there’s one fish that doesn’t even have a skeleton(or a jaw, for that matter). In short, fish are really, really diverse. It’s wild.
Fish are 1) aquatic, 2) craniate, 3) gill-bearing animals 4) that lack limbs with digits. being craniate means they have a head with a cranium, which contains their brain. It also makes them vertebrates. Gill-bearing and lacking limbs with digits sets them apart from mammals (such as whales and porpoises) and amphibians. Aquatic is self-explanatory.
[удалено]
no way. Can you eat them?
[удалено]
my 4 months old can confirm it, he’s doing just that
[удалено]
wait, really?
[удалено]
It's true. I seen it in an episode of the office one time
[I see you've been on the same page that I was just looking at.](https://oceanconservancy.org/blog/2018/12/10/7-wild-facts-may-not-know-seahorses/)
I’m pretty sure it looks that way to blend in with coral, like the stick bug (Phasmatodea) of the sea. Edit: and you know it’s damn sexy
They evolved around 3m years ago at a unique time where volcano eruptions had raised the sea bed created vast shallow seas of coral. This is the only environment they're found in.
[удалено]
Do they keep in touch?
Usually, on the wild only 5 from 1000 seahorses survive. Not sure what happens in an aquarium
They're the Unicorns of the sea, so to speak, pretty magical. I bet those babies are so cute up close.
Nah a narwhal is the unicorn of the sea
The deadbeat mom is no where in sight for the birth……what a shame 
Her philosophy is WAM BAM THANK YOU MAN.
She’s at the bar. The Sand Bar.
She just ran out to get some plankton, she’ll be back
Jesus. **"HRRRRGH!" "HRRRRGH!" "HRRRRGH!" "HRRRRGH!"** \[fucking babies, *everywhere*\]
Very poor placement of a comma
Looks like an ad.
What does?
Looks like an ad.
I think he meant something like: Pedophilia, the new fragrance by Paco Rabanne. Fucking babies… E V E R Y W H E R E
babies, fucking everywhere
I pictured him saying GET OUT! really quickly and aggressively with each squurt 😂😂
Weirdest pokemon attack ever.
Seahorse used procreate
*Horsea Or Seadra…or even Kingdra.
This is how seadra makes baby horseas
It reminds me of how my wife sneezes.
What are they going to do with all those baby seahorses? There's hundreds of them, and that looks like a small tank.
Fewer than five infant seahorses in every 1,000 survive to adulthood. [Source](https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/seahorse-fathers-take-reins-in-childbirth#:~:text=Fewer%20than%20five%20infant%20seahorses,the%20National%20Aquarium%20in%20Baltimore.) Edit - It seems a lot of people keep saying the same thing "but that's in the wild. This isn't the wild it's an aquarium." If you read to the bottom of the article (source above), you will see that the technology to raise seahorses in captivity is relatively new (maybe 20ish years at this point. Don't have exact date it became possible). That's because of how difficult it is. Not to get the seahorses to breed, but to help the offspring survive. I don't have numbers for you on this question. But it looks like it's tricky breeding them so a lot of them still probably pass away. Sorry I don't have a more definitive answer for captivity survival rates. Looks like it will depend on how well they are taken care of, and then if they were bred to be sold or bred and released into the wild.
[удалено]
Everybody gangsta until one of em just starts aimbotting.
The snipefish
But that’s out in the wild, I wonder how many survive in aquarium births
Depends on how hungry the aquarium owner gets
r/cursedcomments
What's the nutritional value of a seapony?
"Seapony"thank you I love you 🤣🤣 Also good quest-nom.
or how close to the filter intake they give birth
Probably small enough to get sucked in by the pump and filter. To shreds, I say.
How's his wife holding up?
To shreds, you say?
In the wild? If you can keep them all alive somehow that’s 80000$ @ 40$ each.
You mad lad, you've actually counted them.
I tried counting for like 10 seconds but there’s way too many. I just read a few other comments and then googled a couple numbers. Definitely makes me wanna get some though lol
Who the fuck is going to buy your hundreds of bred seahorses??
Better be careful there is now 100 hp of sea horse power in that aquarium.
[удалено]
that’s exactly how i do it
Hah, yeah I was born the same way
I got stuck twice at 8 am on a fucking Sunday but I bet my mom wished it went like this
Like 20s of you coming out every minute?
Anyone else want to see what it looks like without the seahorse holding on for stability? I’m just picturing spinning around with crazy expulsions lol
Pretty sure they won't spawn if they're not stable, they might not even be able to do it that way
Actually they need a light level of 7 or below
Also can't be on slabs. If you don't want to use torches, throw down a half coat.
Rocket propulsion, manoeuvring constantly?
Pleasantly surprised no one argued that this is a female. I was expecting to see some dumb. My faith in humanity has gone up, say, 0.01%, give or take.
Wait what? Okay I think I'm the dumb one you're looking for. This isn't a female giving birth?
nope, in seahorses the pregnancy happens in the male, where the female uses a tube called the ovipositor, (which is also a sex toy so careful if you google it) to lay the eggs in the pouch of the male, after which the male inseminates them and carries them for 2 to 3 weeks after which the video happens for birth (source: [https://animalcorner.org/seahorse-reproduction/](https://animalcorner.org/seahorse-reproduction/) )
YO WHAT THE FUCK?? I NEVER KNEW THE FEMALE FUCKED THE MALE
*[laughs in Hyena](https://www.genderinclusivebiology.com/newsletter/all-female-spotted-hyenas-have-functional-penises-and-mount-both-male-amp-female-hyenas-gender-showcase-9-12#:~:text=A%20female%20spotted%20hyena%20mates,male%20inserts%20his%20own%20penis.&text=During%20birth%2C%20the%20embryo%20traverses,a%20sharp%20bend%20in%20it.)*
Wow. That’s…. I don’t even know. Thank you.
Bro they have a clitorous they give birth through wtf
Well, technically it’s a pseudopenis, but yes. It’s very painful for the hyena and can kill first time mothers.
Thats sick didnt know female Hyenas would fuck other females and males in the ass hole with their clit turned penis thing for submission.
[удалено]
AS IT SHOULD BE
Seahorses and Seadragons are the only species we know of in which the males carry the pregnancy.
The female sea horse deposits the eggs with the males. The males carry them for up to a month and a half until he gives birth to live young.
Not dumb, just uninformed. I think the "see some dumb" bit was slightly uncalled for.. Doubling down on uninformed, now that is dumb
If you were dumb you wouldn’t have sought to gain clarity on something you did not understand. You would have just wrongly argued that it was a female. Give yourself some credit.
What? Someone not knowing that male sea horses give birth doesn't make them dumb, and it should have no effect on your faith in humanity. It's just some random fun fact that some people happen to have heard and others haven't.
r/iamverysmart
Exactly. Taking the only fact we know about seahorses is holding it up like a prize.
not knowing an obscure seahorse fact = "dumb" stay euphoric reddit
Good lord, you sound pretentious.
What's dumb in thinking a female is giving birth to their offspring as is the case in 99.9999% of the animals? You think people are just born with this random tid bit that it's the male Sea Horse which gets pregnant?
Shouldn't he be doing that on the female's breasts?
Finally, a sophisticated comment. Skeet skeet y’all!
$25 each…(:
Yo, i gotta start breeding seahorses. imagine the money with that many kids.
Very little survive till adulthood
In nature
how many survive under observation?
Big seahorse doesn’t want you to find out.
I will take the money anyways lol
Shiiiiit. That’s only if you have a common type. Some places they go for 40$ that’s 80000$. If only 5% survives that’s still 4000$. Now imagine if they were rare colors and worth 150$ and you kept them all alive that would be 300,000$!! Or what about https://seahorsesavvy.com/collections/seahorses/products/new-captive-bred-dark-silver-saddled-erectus-seahorse-2-pair-special. Those are 400$ each (800k$) on sale from 480$ (960k$)….: these things have to be super hard to breed or something. Edit: just read you get a pair for that price so just half those numbers and your still balling out of control.
The hard part about breeding expensive fish is finding enough people/stores to buy them, especially speciality exotic fish that are hard to keep
What to Expect When You’re a Male Seahorse Expecting… Which is a Thing
r/bojackhorseman
I am afraid that filter will filter those little dudes
I used to have guppies that bred like crazy. The filter sucks them up and keeps them in the little pool of water inside of the filter. They usually survive inside and also can’t get eaten by their mother or other fish. So the filter actually isn’t that bad.
But how do they get out
Just scoop them out. Idk if you ever looked at a filter up close but they usually end up In filter pads or anywhere really. You just scoop them out though. It’s hard for them to get to the parts that would actually hurt them. The real problem is mommy and daddy horse eating them or at least it’s that way with regular fish
Human birth: hours of intense labour pains with a drawn out delivery process Seahorse birth: haha babies go brrrrrr
I feel like a joke could be made about female's evolution for birthing versus male evolution for birthing... Women: one at a time, it should be a drawn out process where we can connect emotionally and bond fully with our offspring. Male: fuck it, I wanna see how far I can shoot them out of me! The more the better!!! As long as they dont stay too close. Oh, and I get bored easy so think like machine gun spray and over in seconds.
Imagine you cum babies like this dude
I mean you cum 1/2 of millions of babies so
Now imagine you use one hand to hold onto the chair while you do it and hundreds of Redditers discuss it.
This is also me after Taco Bell
And that makes it next fucking level?
I agree. It's doing the thing that every seahorse does.
Pew pew pew
That’s a male isn’t it?
Anything else would just be weird
This belongs in r/intrestingasfuck not here
That dude will be busy for a long time naming all his kids
Yeet... Yeet... Yeet... Yeet..
Yeet! Yeet!
Jesus….you’re gonna need a bigger tank
Not sure why, but I think I'm traumatized.
And i thought my life changed alot cuz i got TWINS…
the male seahorse are the ones who gets pregnant and give's birth, right?
How is this “next fucking level”? This is how sea horses are born. They do it pretty regularly.
Look at the proud daddy right there!
