Father's Day, which falls this year on Sunday, June 21, annually honors committed human dads. But seahorse fathers might just blow those proud papas out of the water. Seahorses are a type of fish in which the males actually get "pregnant." The female seahorse deposits her eggs in the male's specialized pouch, and the male carries up to 2,000 babies during its 10- to 25-day pregnancy. In general throughout the animal kingdom, males leave parenting to the females. (source: news.nationalgeographic.com)
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