Male seahorses prefer large mates
Swiss scientists say they’ve found male seahorses have a strong preference for large females so as to have more and bigger eggs, as well as larger offspring.
Beat Mattle and Tony Wilson of the
Male seahorses prefer large mates
Swiss scientists say they’ve found male seahorses have a strong preference for large females so as to have more and bigger eggs, as well as larger offspring.
Beat Mattle and Tony Wilson of the Zoological Museum at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, said seahorses have an unusual mode of reproduction: male pregnancy. And male seahorses provide all post-fertilization parental care, yet despite the high levels of paternal investment, they have long been thought to have conventional sex roles, with females choosing mating partners and males competing for their a