Weedy Seadragon

Jalma is our female weedy seadragon. Seadragons like her usually live in the waters off Australia and New-Zealand. The main difference you can spot between the seahorse and the seadragon is that the second hasn’t got a prehensile tail. This calm and helpless animal is endangered today.

Key species of the year at SEA LIFE Paris, Seahorses are the stars of the last part of the aquarium with 7 new tanks. Since the Antic times, people are surprised by this little creature so different from the others by its equine profile and its battleship aspect. Unfortunately, today a lot of species are endangered because of intensive fishing and the destroying of their life habit. Dead seahorses business it’s more than 24,5 millions seahorses each year since 2000 !

Things to Do

Meet Jalma our three year old Seadragon
Find out why she only eats live shrimps from the Amazonian area
Watch her camoflague among realistic bio models kelp
Spot her hiding in the algae

There are only two species of Sea Dragons in the world
They are experts in the art of camouflage! They have weed-like protuberances to blend into sea grass and surprise their preys
They essentially eat plankton and crustaceans
For the reproduction, the male keeps the eggs into a gutter on its tail until hatching
The Weedy Sea Dragon can measure 45cm long
It lives next to Australian reefs, in kelp forests

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