Maurice Shema

And then at the same time, I was kind of upset.

Well, I was like, why am I hearing about this for the first time?

And so I was sort of like, who picked which monkey we were going to be compared to?

And why did they pick chimpanzees?

Because if they had picked the owl monkeys, you know, maybe I would have learned something different.

So I found myself kind of wanting to dig into sort of what other animals are out there that might do fathering differently.

The seahorses is the one that everybody knows.

But it's important because the dads get pregnant.

He does like the dance, a courtship dance, and then the female will put her eggs into a pouch in the male seahorse's belly.

And the pouch is kind of like a magical pouch.

It will...

change the levels of oxygen and salt.

And it's kind of like a womb, you know, getting them ready to go out into the ocean.

And they're pregnant for, I think, a couple weeks.

And then the dad seahorse goes into labor and it could take a few hours.

And they just shoot out hundreds of baby seahorses.

All like fully formed, but really tiny.

And then they can get pregnant again a few days later.

There's so many different ways to...

to be a dad there's a lot of options and we're flexible and we can organize and be whatever it is that our kids need that in and of itself is natural that that is something you find in nature okay who is our next dad