Digestive systems in seahorses are practically non-existent, as food passes directly through their digestive tract in an incredibly short and inefficient process.

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Digestive systems in seahorses are practically non-existent, as food passes directly through their digestive tract in an incredibly short and inefficient process. Because they extract so few nutrients from what they consume, seahorses must eat almost constantly, swallowing up to three thousand microscopic shrimp per day just to stay alive. Imagine being biologically cursed to graze without a single moment of rest, forever trapped in a never-ending cycle of consumption just to maintain a baseline level of existence. Actually, that sounds exactly like scrolling through social media at two in the morning while aggressively eating handfuls of shredded cheese straight from the fridge. Evolution really looked at a tiny, armor-plated sea dragon and decided to saddle it with the worst metabolism in the history of the ocean