Seahorses

My fascination with seahorses began when I read in a National Geographic article that the male seahorses are the ones who get pregnant.

After an elaborate courtship dance, the female seahorse deposits her eggs into the male's pouch. He then fertilizes the eggs and incubates them for up to 30 days. The male seahorse carries between 50 and 1500 baby seahorses, spending a day or two in labor.

This gender-bending behavior intrigued me and I thought it would be fun to incorporate seahorses into a film one day.

I then found out that the latin name for seahorse is hippocampus from the latin roots hippos (water) and kampe (worm). What I was excited to discover is that hippocampus is also the name of a part of the brain that is responsible for memory.

Web pages about seahorses:

General Information about seahorses:
www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/7897/page2.html

There's a band called The Seahorses
www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/1597/seah.html

Project Seahorse is a group dedicated to seahorse conservation
ww2.mcgill.ca/Biology/labs/vincent/seahorse/project.htm

New Zealand artist who makes seahorse pillow covers:
www.designercushions.co.nz/seahorse.htm

Seahorses from the perspecice of 5th graders
www.expage.com/seahorsepage