On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 14:50:41 +1000, David Strike <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>On Monday, June 12, 2000 2:06 PM, Mike Wallace wrote:
>
>> Interesting article on Seahorses....
>>
>http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/Britain000601Seahorses.html

Wonder how many readers thought that was Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes"? :-)

>Thanks, Mike.  That's an interesting article.

Indeed.  I thought the seahorses are carrying out the notion of a
"monogamous" relation a bit too far myself, especially among sea
creatures.

>(Particularly the fact that
>in Hong Kong, the sea-horse is - pound for pound - more valuable than
>silver!)

That's cheap in "Chinese medicine"!  The rhinoceros horn, pound for
pound, cost THOUSAND times more than seahorses in the "Chinese medicine
stores".

>Which is probably why, in a number of places, they're actually being
farmed.
>A move that, paradoxically, will help prevent their extinction by reducing
>their rarity value!

An interesting concept!  But NATURE is supposed to have a way of combating
human intervention in terms of "survival of the fittest".  Just look at
the cockroaches!  We've been trying to drive THEM to extinction for
years, without success.  :-)

-- Bob.