Maurice Shema

He's a really good swimmer, by the way.

Okay.

Really fast.

We kept talking about all sorts of different dads.

He's talking about a two to three month piggyback ride.

Well,

First, I was like, that's so cute.

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.