Sentences with word «guppy»

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.

In our house, it's not uncommon to walk into a room and find that he's already turned the television on and started his favorite DVR episode of Bubble Guppies (it's the «Glitter Games» episode, in case you were wondering).

Although the benefits and risks of guppy releases may be highly context - dependent, some researchers are simply taking a hard line.

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.

That's the conclusion of a new study of asymmetric male guppies flirting with females in adjoining tanks, says Mart R. Gross of the University of Toronto.

In one of the first studies to look at the cognitive demands of selecting a mate, female guppies with big brains preferred more colourful males — a trait linked with good health and foraging ability.

More grey matter is worth its energy cost to female guppies as they use their smarts to evade predators

In a new experiment, female Trinidadian guppies lived much longer than males and still used sperm left over from the generation of the grandfathers of current males.

Children squeeze the trigger to open his mouth, then try to gobble up all the little guppies as they float on the water's surface as fast as they can.

So if camouflage confers such an obvious survival benefit to prey species like guppies when it comes to predator avoidance, what possible advantage could there be to sporting colors and patterns that make an individual more conspicuous?

Except for guppies, these are all cold - water species, so you will need a system with a chiller, and the water must be well - filtered and free of pathogens.

The little guppy Poecilia reticulata has developed a big reputation.

After graduation, I worked as a technician studying speciation in wild tomatoes and rapid adaptation in Trinidadian guppies before starting graduate school at the University of Toronto.

Back in the lab, Endler proved his hypothesis by creating guppy populations that over just 10 generations adapted to the different environmental challenges and advantages he introduced.

At its most posthumously successful, stored ghost sperm sired about one in four of the offspring among wild guppies released into a stream, evolutionary biologist Andrés López - Sepulcre of École Normale Supérieure in Paris and his colleagues report June 5 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Watch him head upstairs to the ministry of coffee and Bubble Guppies on Netflix.

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Guppies exposed to predators tend to aggregate into smaller, more tightly knit groups, which may allow them to coordinate their predator avoidance strategies.

Among wild guppies in Trinidad streams, a female (left) can store sperm from a male (right).

So do guppies, chimps, macaques, bears, lions, carrion crows and many more species.

Toyota's 2004 FTX concept truck was a fairly accurate, if more guppy - like, precursor to the all - new model.

We have those Gobble Gobble Guppies and just love them.

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.

Guppies Kid's Zone.

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Biologists have long known that female Poecilia reticulata guppies store sperm.

Jack and Margie Brenner, Scott's grandparents, started selling guppies out of their basement in 1950.

Or filling an old wash - tin with sand and salt water, then adding guppies and brightly clawed crabs caught among the mangroves on the riverfront.

Veteran guppy researcher John Endler of the University of California, Santa Barbara, agrees that this is one of several possible explanations.

Each colorful guppy is numbered 1 - 5 for an added educational experience to a fun catch»em game.

There is nothing more irritating than hearing someone say, «This does not look like two dozen guppies to me.»

Males guppies care about food less, which could explain why they did not perform well on the tests.

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

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.

I'm pretty sure once she finds out that there are Sofia the First, Jake & The Neverland Pirates and Bubble Guppies games — she will be adding them to her Christmas wish list!

One would hope the US Attorney would find time to harpoon this «Whale of Corruption» once he's done sharpening his aim on the political guppies he's hunted so far.

Heathcote thinks that the tighter - knit friendships that come from small groups allow guppies to more effectively cooperate in their predator avoidance activities.

But intelligence does matter to the tropical fish, as big - brained guppies outwit predators to live longer than slower witted peers.

Evolutionary biologists thought the female guppy always chooses her mate by his vibrant colors and swinging tail.

Female guppies prefer colorful males but don't like their smell.

He would rather ponder guppies in a fishbowl.

To test this, the team studied the strategy of the nocturnal European catfish as it stalked swimming guppies in a test aquarium illuminated only by infrared light, in which catfish can not see.

«If someone comes out and says, «Actually it doesn't work and it's going to cause you a problem,» that can decrease the chance that the government would be more open to trying [guppy release] on a large scale,» he says.