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The first time biologist Heather Mason Jones read about the seahorses on Eleuthera Island, she had difficulty believing in a spot where by seahorses had been as typical as other fish. Right after 29 yrs researching the animals, the University of Tampa seahorse skilled had in no way witnessed far more than a handful alongside one another underwater in her complete job. But when she was immersed in the emerald waters of the mile-extended Sweetings Pond, which sits on a slender crescent of an island in the Bahamas, she started to consider the buzz.
“It was an totally magical instant,” she suggests, incorporating that she noticed sixteen of the animals in many dives all through the first weekend in the water there — an massive