The Horse Nobody Rides 



by Burgess H. Scott . . . painting by C. H. Roberts 



FEW CREATURES can equal the little 4-inch-long seahorse in 

 reversing Nature's well-ordered rules and regulations. For 

 one thing, he is the only fish to swim upright, propelling himself 

 with his long prehensile tail and fast-moving dorsal fin. 



His resemblance to a horse is in outline only. Everything else 

 about him is strictly non-equine. In fact, one of his means of 

 locomotion is the un-horselike habit of riding other fish. 



The seahorse pins his hopes of survival on what is probably 

 the most passive means of defense known: he simply tastes and 



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