Seahorse Facts
Let me tell you all about seahorses! Seahorses live mainly in shallow coastal areas and are found in both tropical and temperate waters all over the world. Seahorses do not have stomachs, so they have to eat a lot because their food goes straight through their digestive tract. The adult seahorse can eat up to fifty times a day!!
Facts about seahorses:
1. Seahorses can get up to 14 inches long.
2. Seahorses eat small crustaceans.
3. They are very slow swimmers.
4. They don’t look like a fish, but they are! However, they
do not have scales like fish do.
5. Seahorses can live
up to five years.
6. They have excellent camouflage and can hide well from
most predators.
7. There are about 46 species of seahorses.
8. Just like humans have unique fingerprints each seahorse
has a small crown called a coral net and it is different on each individual
seahorse.
What is your
favorite kind of sea creature?
Books about seahorses:
1. Facts About the Seahorse by Lisa Strattin
2. Seahorses by Valerie Bodden
3. Goodnight, Seahorse by Carly Fletcher
4. Secret Seahorse by Stella Blackstone
5. Counting Sea Life with the Little Seahorse by Sheri Fink
and Derek Kent
6. Seahorses For Beginners by Mike French
Parents, please make sure all books are child friendly before
reading them to your child/children.
wow seahorses are so ALSOME
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