Passive diffusion allows the seahorse to obtain oxygen from its environment and get rid of of waste carbon dioxide. How do seahorses digest their food? Seahorses use their snout to suck up food like a vacuum. They don’t have teeth or chew food, but it disintegrates as it gets sucked Read more…
The male secretes sperm into his marsupium, achieving external fertilization of the eggs. The male sea horse then broods the eggs within his pouch until they hatch. Is fertilization in seahorse external or internal? The fertilization is therefore regarded as being physiologically ‘external’ within a physically ‘internal’ environment after the Read more…
Seahorses are found in shallow coastal waters in latitudes from about 52° N to 45° S. Their habitats include coral reefs, mangroves, sea grass beds, and estuaries. They are unique in appearance, with their horselike head, prehensile tail, independently moving eyes, and brood pouch. What are seahorses classified as? A Read more…
Seahorses have these bony plates instead of scales. As well as being covered in skin which can change colour, the structural plates can aid in camouflage. In some species they even have spines, which make them less palatable for predators that manage to overcome the difficulty of actually locating these Read more…
Fava beans are loaded with nutrients and may offer impressive health benefits. Eating these beans regularly may have benefits for symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, help prevent birth defects, boost immunity, aid weight loss and lower cholesterol levels and blood pressure. Who should not eat fava beans? Favism (G6PD deficiency). Favism Read more…
Horse beans, left to mature fully, are usually harvested in the late autumn, and are then eaten as a pulse. The immature pods are also cooked and eaten, and the young leaves of the plant can also be eaten, either raw or cooked as a pot herb (like spinach). What Read more…
Oregon is home to about 4,500 wild horses, but according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management the state can only sustain about 2,700. How many wild horse herds are in Oregon? BLM manages 17 Herd Management Areas (HMA) in southeast Oregon and co-manages one Wild Horse Territory (Murders Creek Read more…
Filled legs is the term used to describe a condition where the length of a horse’s legs (more commonly the hind pair) appear swollen. It’s often the result of the horse standing in his stable for longer than normal and not doing enough exercise. What is filling in a horse’s Read more…
Fibula: completely fused to the tibia in most horses. Where is the fibula on a horse? The fibula is the second bone of the skeleton of the leg: it runs along the lateral border of the tibia and does not articulate with the femur proximally. Do animals have tibia and Read more…
The early bicycles such as the hobby horse were used by the wealthy simply as a pleasurable pastime. It wasn’t until late Victorian times that the design improved enough so that people could use them to travel comfortably and for them to be considered seriously as a form of transport. Read more…