Sentences with phrase «for guppies»

Not exact matches

In the study researchers selected guppies for large and small brain sizes.

The guppy with stoch, and macd is a great tool to have, when all three line up and point in the same direction its almost magical, Great entry signals but not so good for exits.

Such grace, such beauty, such total awesomeness that few men on Earth — let alone playing football for a Premier League guppy — have ever performed.

We were sent the Fisher Price Bubble Guppies toys, Organic Babies Dry Skin Lotion and Fairy dishwasher tablets for the purposes of this review.

To do it, they set out for the Caribbean island of Trinidad, home of a small freshwater fish called the Trinidadian guppy.

Ecologists have shown that organisms in the wild can evolve rapidly — just 4 years for male guppies to become 15 % heavier — when placed into new environments (Science, 28 March, p. 1934).

Personal computers in 2008 are just about a match for the 0.1 - gram brain of a guppy, but a typical PC would have to be at least 10,000 times more powerful to perform like a human brain.

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Another, even more striking example of the gull chick principle is the idiosyncratic preference (demonstrated in the lab) that guppies show for potential mates that have been painted blue — even though in nature guppies are not blue.

But whatever the explanation, he has always suspected that smell must be important for these fish and he's pleased that this new side of the guppy's sex life has finally been revealed.

Good looks are nothing to sniff at, but if you're a male guppy in a murky stream, your body odor may be more important for attracting mates.

For decades, the little guppy Poecilia reticulata has been championed as a mosquito fighter and dumped into ponds and ditches to eat up the insect's larvae.

In a paper published online today in Biology Letters, a group of ecologists argues that the guppies — and other nonnative fish used for mosquito control — haven't actually proven very effective mosquito fighters, but are known to pose ecological risks.

As for ecological risks, guppies in isolated containers may be less likely to spread than those dumped into urban sewers and ditches.

Researchers in Hawaii found that guppies released in the 1920s drove down native fish populations, perhaps by competing with them for food and living space, and had likely changed the cycle of nutrients in water: Guppy - rich areas showed increased levels of dissolved nitrogen — from ammonium in fish urine and gill excretions — which, in turn, stimulated algae growth.

Fish from high - predation environments also reproduced for longer periods than did guppies from low - predation regions, again contradicting the conventional view, the researchers report in the 28 October issue of Nature.

I braved opening day with a toddler (and an ipad with loaded with Bubble Guppies) to try on as many of my favs that I could find in store for ya!

A quick look at the enormous «guppy plane», which delivers fuselage pieces for assembly into Airbus planes.

He demonstrates how Tiger Woods's golf swing, Tupperware parties and guppies» mating behavior all contain lessons for investors.

Those retailers who carry fish will already be familiar with the necessity for various sizes and species, and they probably carry feeder goldfish in a variety of sizes as well as smaller prey fish like guppies, minnows, etc..

Mike Albo, the freelancer who mused about feeling like a «guppy who is being eaten by his mother» after being outed as a taker of press trips, has fictionalized his experience and put it up for sale as a Kindle Single.

Splash Academy also offers the Guppies program for babies ages up to 3, featuring hosted activities for little cruisers and their parents who can enjoy sensory play and painting classes featuring «Wee Can Too» organic art products.

Babysitter services are available upon request for an hourly rate with previous notice for children under 4 or outside Guppies» hours.