Why Are Seahorses So Expensive?

Fishermen can sell them for very little. They’d otherwise be thrown away, after all. Prices are marked up as seahorses move from local ports to distributors, and into herbal shops worldwide. And as these animals become rarer, demand may drive the cost up further, meaning they’ll just get more expensive. Read more…

Is Seahorse Good Eating?

They are, meaning that they are not poisonus or harmful for your health. They are eaten mostly in Asia and are widely used in Chinese medicine for different treatments. Western science does not recognize the benefits of eating these creatures. What are the benefits of eating seahorses? A Cathepsin-derived peptide Read more…

Does Male Horse Have Breast?

On the other hand, male horses/ lack mammary glands and nipples and male mice do not develop nipples, making it impossible for them to lactate. Do horses have breast? Female horses (mares) have two teats, one for each mammary gland. They are quite small compared to other animals’ teats (like Read more…

Why Is My Horse Lactating?

Occasionally mares that are not pregnant start producing milk. One cause for this is abnormal hormone production from one of the hormone producing glands in the body (i.e. secondary to Cushing’s Disease) and is sometimes due to a tumour forming in that gland, but not always. Why would a mare Read more…

What Sort Of Animal Is A Horse?

hoofed mammal. The horse (Equus ferus caballus) is a domesticated, one-toed, hoofed mammal. It belongs to the taxonomic family Equus ferus and is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature, Eohippus, into Read more…