Pregnant Seahorses

If we were to play the game 20 Questions, I'd bet that very few of you would be able to narrow the topic down to pregnant seahorses.  I thought about them for about a half hour earlier today.  I don't know what led my thought train to that subject, but I ended up there somehow.

 

A little trivia for you about seahorses: the seahorse is the only animal where the "male" gives birth.  Now I haven't been involved in biology since 9th grade, so don't ask me about the birds and the bees as they relate to seahorses.  I'm just relaying what I read on Wikipedia: the eggs aren’t even fertilized until they are deposited inside the male.  He then carries them to term and gives birth.

I think I picked up this trivia a long time ago and I don't have a clue who originally told me this.

I do have a suggestion for marine biologists out there:  I think it would make more sense to flip the assignment of the sexes for seahorses.  That way, the one who actually gives birth would be called the female.  Then the exception can be about how the birds and the bees bits are distributed amongst the seahorses, and not about the sex that is most directly responsible for continuing the species.