L'Hippocampe

I've just watched this wonderful 1934 film by the Surrealist Jean Painlevé (son of the great mathematician Paul Painlevé, who was twice Prime Minister of France). These amazing creatures, drifting serenely, clasping reeds and each other with their tails: impossible not to anthopomorphise. (And of course it's the male who gives birth, as we see in Painlevé's delightful film.)