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  • s2redux

    Great; now all day my head will be echoing with “The Sea’hoarze” — thanx, Ze!

    • http://twitter.com/spockosbrain Spocko

      Came here to make the same comment!  I think I heard it more as Seawhores. but yours is more accurate.

      • mappo

         Sea Whores

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Freethinkersanon Christopher

    Every aquarium in the world that has a seahorse exhibit should have a monitor with this video playing on a continuous loop. Preferably with some additional footage of seahorse porn. 

  • http://profiles.google.com/kisnerp Peter Kisner

    “Cause he’s a seahorse
    Of course
    Surely he knows.

    When you’re a seahorse
    Of course
    That’s how it goes.”

    http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2006/07/14/thing-a-week-41-seahorse/

    • Jason Baker

      Tune in next week for the Glee version.

  • http://2012diaries.blogspot.com/ tristan eldritch

    I used to wonder when I was younger if the seahorse was actually real or another burn like the sea monkey.

    • http://noadi.etsy.com/ Sheryl Westleigh

       Amusingly enough seahorses live on sea monkeys (brine shrimp).

  • showme

    Ah, I haven’t seen one of those since my last water polo tournament.

  • gypsyspacemuffin

    “That is how the sea’hoarze do.”

  • ChickieD

    A cool seahorse related thing: The Wilmington, NC aquarium has a seahorse exhibit. One of the little guys got his swim bladder all kerfluey so they were trying to figure out how to fix it. Well, putting him under more pressure was the solution it seemed. So, how was that done? They put him into a small container and then lowered him down in his little container into the great big tank – all the way to the bottom. And that fixed him all up. I just always liked to imagine this little guy going on that terrible ride down past the sharks, the moray eels, the skates, and all those bigger fishes who probably thought he looked like a nice snack.

  • Kenmrph

    I could have sworn I was listening to Ze Frank pitch-shifted down a bit.

    • Kenmrph

      WOOSH is the sound of me missing the obvious. Again.

  • http://stephan-zielinski.com/ Stephan Zielinski

    Seahorses will eat brine shrimp, but they don’t do so in the wild– brine shrimp are restricted to inland salt lakes– and Seahorse Foods and Feeding notes, “Many fish stores recommend feeding this because as a live food, a lot of seahorses will react to it and eat it. However, there is virtually no nutritional value to them, and because seahorses have a short digestive tract, they can not even make use of the little bit nutrients there. Seahorses fed only this will slowly die of starvation, sometimes over a period of months.”  (She goes on to suggest foods that will work, notably Mysis shrimp– which is a seahorse staple in the wild.)

    • Antinous / Moderator

      Wow, that’s like Grave of the Fireflies for seahorses.

      • chgoliz

        Thanks for the reminder: time to re-watch that film.

  • http://twitter.com/the_damned_fool the damned fool

    I just KNEW ZeFrank couldn’t stay away forever!  He’s sounding a bit like Morgan Freeman these days tho’. 

    • Punchcard

      He has a sequel to “the show”!

      It is called “a show”.

      http://ashow.zefrank.com/
      For you, I strongly recommend the episode “True facts about Morgan Freeman”

    • dasanjos

      Specially in this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5MEJk5ZCQ

      • http://profile.yahoo.com/MWNNAJTTXSXFUN4A6FLTKAT264 Michael

        Thank you for sharing that. I needed a laugh.

  • rick stanley

    you gotta see true facts about the angler fish. even funnier

  • https://twitter.com/misterjayem MrJM

    And I’m supposed to believe that these… creatures originated on Earth?

    Give me a break!!1!

  • tamiw

    Absolutely hilarious video. But no; a number of the facts there are wrong. I don’t blame zefrank; they’ve been passed around the interwebs since time immemorial. I still loved every silly minute of it.

    • http://naamaak.blogspot.com/ naam

      And you’re just, like, keeping those facts to yourself? No fair!

    • ocker3

       If you watch his other ‘true facts’ shows, I believe you’ll start to see where he’s going with it.

  • retepslluerb

    My video’s broken. Full of silly little beeps.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/MWNNAJTTXSXFUN4A6FLTKAT264 Michael

     This guy should narrate my life, it makes no sense either. Now that I think of it, maybe I am a seahorse.