When a female seahorse is ready to lay her eggs, she squirts as many as 600 eggs into the male's pouch. The male provides the eggs with all the oxygen and nutrients. Six weeks later he delivers young by shooting them out of his pouch.
Nesting Requirements of Marbled Murrelets in British Columbia
Habitat loss
Marbled Murrelets are ducks who spend their entire life at sea except during mating season, when they nest on the large branches of ancient trees along the Pacific Northwest coastline. However, their traditional nesting areas have now mostly been destroyed through the harvesting of trees. Investigators from Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, who are studying marbled murrelets, have found that the ducks are now nesting in ancient forests of the lower subalpine region, above their former nesting areas in valley bottoms. This research is helping to develop strategies to conserve important patches of high quality subalpine nesting habitat for marbled murrelets.
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