Elizabeth Preston

You can wait till tomorrow.

Someone's got to hold the boundary.

Exactly.

But if she decides it really is time for a meal, she'll turn around and she'll lay an unfertilized egg into the pool and the tadpole will eat that.

Amazing.

No, not at all.

And you're right.

Male seahorses do get a lot of credit for what's ultimately not that much effort because they do get impregnated by the female and they do grow the babies inside them in their belly.

But then after they birth the babies, their job is totally done.

They will go off very shortly thereafter and start courting their mate again and they're ready to just start over.

It's a minimal effort, and they get a lot of credit, which actually does have some parallels to humans, I would say.

Yes, definitely.

Yeah, I don't know that I have advice because this is such a universal problem, right?

We as adults know what the kid needs and the kid relies on us.

The reason that we have parental care is because our kids need our help.

They need our help not to walk into the street or to get out of the river and cross to where there is food.

And that's, you know, that's our job.

move them?

Yes.

I mean, there's always the pick them up by the nape of the neck.