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This is Kelly, and as you can see, she's pregnant. She's got about four weeks to go until her baby is born. |
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And this is Thea, who's with her mum. She's nine weeks old. |
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As we all know, only girls have babies. Can't they? |
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Well, there is one dad who gets pregnant and gives birth... ...these are big bellied sea horses, from Brighton Sea Life Centre. |
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This is the male. What's amazing is that as a dad, he gets pregnant and gives birth instead of the sea horse mum! |
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The highlighted area of this picture is his belly where all the baby sea horses develop before they're born. |
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Just before the male gives birth, his pouch gets really huge. He then opens it up and wiggles about, letting all the babies out into the water. |
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Baby sea horses can look after themselves immediately after being born - even though they're so tiny! |
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