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Enchanted Seadragons

My Scholarship entry - Enchanted Seadragons

Seadragans are very shy and secretive animals - rarely allowing close views.

AUSTRALIA | Monday, 24 November 2014 | Views [411] | View Larger Image

Seadragans are very shy and secretive animals - rarely allowing close views.

Male and female weedy seadragons perform an intricate and beautiful dance which concludes with the male seadragon carrying the fertilised eggs for almost 8 weeks after which the babies hatch fully formed.

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Listed by the IUCN as Threatened due to habitat destruction by human sources such as pollution and mooring infrastructure. While pollution remains a problem, luckily a group of dedicated engineers have a devised a system of mooring that minimizes the damage caused by ropes pulling up marine vegetation - and unsuspecting seadragons.

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