Deep Sea Chameleons

Here are my thoughts on the deep sea chameleons.

The creature of which myths and legends are born. It leaves us with the charm and wonder. We love surreal properties and strive to try to understand their function. This does not happen, as we humans have been considered only in its nature and uses, and the call between the dream world of the sea and the creatures of the Earth. Those who imagine they come from another realm.

In the reality of things, this chameleon of the sea is the sea horse, whose strong point of an unusual beauty has become his greatest shortcoming. The sea horses are found in most worlds, shallow seas from north to south, the English Channel Tasman Sea and the eastern Pacific.

The Knysna River estuary, Rio Keurboom and lagoons are home Swartvlei the only known surviving species of horse Sea estuary of the Knysna seahorse, Hippocampus capensis.

South African National Parks protects Hippocampus capensis, the Knysna Sea Horse Group as a prohibited species, and nobody can take it or alter it. The number and type of fish you are allowed to take rules on Marine Living Resources Act (No 18 of 1998). If someone wanted to keep a seahorse captive license is issued by the Minister of Environment and Tourism.

Seahorses in captivity in marine aquariums and can only hope that this deployment of education to encourage people to refrain from sea horses that have been dried and encapsulated in resin as key chains and weights.

The horse is a fish of the sea is very unusual, with a backbone, gills, swim bladder and fins. This is a real fish and as such, I like to imagine that, in seawater, changing its color to match your environment and the settlement of the tail around a little plant material, while the tides and currents Knysna heads through.