#theres an interaction where they basically go “merfolk reproduce exactly like seahorses so they all do mpreg!”

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5. What's your controversial marine biology take? Oh, have I been talking about my controversial takes these past few days! Ocean sunfish.... beautiful, so silly but so beautiful.

To name another thing, perhaps this is moreso something that grinds my gears rather than a controversial take but I haaaaate when people say that male seahorses get pregnant. It's what it looks like but it's not the case!!! He just has a pouch where the egg are deposited for safekeeping, it's like mouthbrooding but with a designated pouch!! He does not produce the eggs and all the nutrition the eggs receive was never from him!!! Perhaps I get too hung up on these aquatic animal technicalities, but it still makes me needlessly annoyed whenever in fiction there's like, seahorses, and they imply that the process of seahorse baby development is the exact same as human baby development but.... backwards for sexes..?

#i ranted about this for like 10 minutes to my sister when we were playing monster prom the other day. #theres an interaction where they basically go “merfolk reproduce exactly like seahorses so they all do mpreg!” #the narrator finishes the interaction off with essentially “wait until bigots hear about male seahorses...” #the first offense was the seahorse pregnancy. the second offense was them blatantly ignoring the actual “trans” fish of the world! #trans in quotations because fish dont experience gender. but there are several species of fish that are born as female and become male or- #are born as male and become female! some fish carry both sets of reproductive organs their whole life and some are born as one sex and- #then become both as they age! theres so many hermaphroditic fish! and they went with seahorses.... #naturally though the game was not made with fish nerds going “UMMM ACTSHUALLY-!!” in mind but rather for an audience of all kinds of people #asks #toaster-os #marine biology ask game