Sea Dragon This is one of the most strange animals that live at sea and belongs to the family of seahorses, as seahorses or fish pipe. This marine fish comes from the Australian coast and is found in temperate waters no more profound about 20 meters. It has long extensions that can be used as camouflage and move through the impetus to give their pectoral and dorsal fins, which can hardly be differentiated because they are transparent and are confused with its extensions, resulting look similar to that of a floating algae. Its length is usually about 45 centimetres and its food se basa en plankton and algae. His technique is excellent camouflage, not only because of its appearance algae, but that also has the ability to mimic the outside around him, as well as power to direct the eyes of independently obtaining a greater visual field. When they feel threatened increase in size, so that apparently simulate be larger and more aggressive. The female deposits eggs in the bag which has macho and remain in the abdomen during a six weeks since fertilization, resulting after several dozen offspring. Their only enemy is man, caught as exotic animal or being dragged in fishing other fish. Unfortunately, there has been considerable disappearance, also caused by pollution caused by industrial waste dump.

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