Burt's childhood friend Ellen (a pitch - perfect Maggie Gyllenhaal) is a Women's Studies professor who now calls herself LN; her common - law husband Roderick (Josh Hamilton), a liberated guy, loves
male sea horses because they carry babies in their brood pouches.
Male sea horses have been lauded as the gallant «Mr. Moms» of the animal world, and pipefish, their close relatives, are devoted fathers too.
Not exact matches
A few years ago, the Shedd Aquarium Animal Health team took a video with an endoscope of
sea horse babies inside this
male's pouch as part of an exam.
You probably already know that in
sea horses it is the
male that gets pregnant; he carries developing eggs until they hatch and are ready to venture out on their own.