Tony Wu / Male Korean seashorse (Hippocampus haema) giving birth, Japan, Pacific Ocean.
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Tony Wu / Korean seahorses (Hippocampus haema) preparing to spawn. Japan.
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Tony Wu / Korean seahorses (Hippocampus haema) engaged in unusual post-mating courtship activity. Japan.
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Tony Wu / Male Korean seahorse (Hippocampus haema) giving birth. The babies are still curled up inside the egg membranes. Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
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Tony Wu / Male Korean seahorse (Hippocampus haema) giving birth. Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
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Tony Wu / Male Korean seahorse (Hippocampus haema) on the verge of giving birth. Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
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Tony Wu / A pair of Korean seahorses (Hippocampus haema) engaged in unusual post-mating courtship. Male in foreground, female behind. Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
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Tony Wu / A pair of Korean seahorses (Hippocampus haema) engaged in unusual post-mating courtship. Male on left, female on right. Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
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Tony Wu / A pair of Korean seahorses (Hippocampus haema) engaged in unusual post-mating courtship, tails intertwined. Male on left, female on right. Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
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Tony Wu / Korean seahorses (Hippocampus haema), male on left with two egg-laden females competing to deposit eggs in his brood pouch. Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
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Tony Wu / Korean seahorses (Hippocampus haema) engaged in spawning. The lighter-coloured female on the left is depositing eggs into the brooding pouch of the male (right). Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.
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Tony Wu / Male Korean seahorse (Hippocampus haema) giving birth. Some of the babies are still curled up inside their egg membranes. Kumamoto Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan.