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Female wide-bodied pipefish are brightly coloured, but it is the male that initiates courtship – and carries the babies.
A giraffe seahorse (Hippocampus camelopardalis).
Louw Claassens
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to many weird and wonderful seahorses and pipefish. But they’re under threat.
The estuarine pipefish is not easy to find - it camouflages itself amid seagrass.
Louw Claassens
Environmental DNA like skin cells, blood and faeces can be extracted from water, soil, ice or air to provide a good snapshot of an ecosystem.