Male Seahorse Needs Surgery - After Birth Of 2K Babies

In a rare case in the animal world where the male gives birth to the baby's, surgeons have carried out a complicated operations on a male seahorse that suffered a pouch prolapse after delivering thousands of babies.

The operation took place at the L'Oceanografic aquarium in the city of Valencia in the eastern Spanish region of the same name.

According to an aquarium press statement, a male seahorse has a pouch on its stomach in which to carry babies, as many as 2,000 at a time.