Sentences with phrase «guppy in»

by Bill Chambers Appealing newcomer Nick Cannon stars in Drumline as Devon, a Harlem high - school graduate making the transition from a big fish in a small pond to a guppy in the ocean that is Atlanta A&T.

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.

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.

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

«It all sounds like it's magical — you put the guppies in, they eat the mosquitoes, everything is fine,» says Rana El - Sabaawi, an ecologist at the University of Victoria in Canada and lead author on the new paper.

Scientists thought guppies in Northern Trinidad could be a rare example of adaptation to crude oil pollution.

Players must manage a tank of guppies and other aquatic creatures, each stage begins with two guppies in the tank or one breeder which creates guppies.Guppies and other fish drop money, which can be collected by the player and used to purchase fish food and upgrades, such as more aquatic creatures, more filling food, and powerful lasers to repel attackers.Each creature must be kept alive by feeding, whether through fish food bought by the player or other species of fish in the tank.

But, as we stood on the shore at Hawks Nest, near where she used to live, I pointed out landmarks from tales I'd told the kids about my childhood — there's the sandbank where Aunty Kathryn cut her foot... here's where we caught guppies in buckets... those little balls of sand are made by the crabs digging... Nana Peg would wake us at 6 am to swim in the king tides, the water would go right up to those boats resting on the grass... my great - grandmother lived on a houseboat that was beached just over there...»

We stood on the shore at Hawks Nest, near where she used to live, and I pointed out landmarks from tales I'd told the kids about my childhood — there's the sandbank where Aunty Kathryn cut her foot... here's where we caught guppies in buckets... those little balls of sand are made by the crabs digging... Nana Peg would wake us at 6 am to swim in the king tides, the water would go right up to those boats resting on the grass... my great - grandmother lived on a houseboat that was beached just over there...»

We stood on the shore and I pointed out landmarks from tales I've told the kids about my childhood — there's the sandbank where Aunty Kathryn cut her foot... here's where we caught guppies in buckets... those little balls of sand are made by the crabs digging... Nana Peg would wake us at 6 am to swim in the king tides, the water would go right up to those boats resting on the grass... my great - grandmother lived on a houseboat that was beached just over there...

Not exact matches

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

The guts from the guppies were also found to be 20 percent smaller in larger - brained guppies and they had 19 percent less offspring than their smaller brained counterparts.

Studying the fish in their native habitats in Venezuela and Trinidad, he realized the guppies that lived in the pools below waterfalls tended to have very dull coloration.

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.

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.

In fact, I sometimes think that having Noah has made us miss Will more, because we often wonder how much he would have been like Noah — would he have grinned when he heard the theme song to Bubble Guppies?

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

[Robert J. P. Heathcote et al., Fear of predation drives stable and differentiated social relationships in guppies, in Scientific Reports]

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.

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.

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.

Preliminary results showed that reductions in the number of adult mosquitoes were two times greater in households with guppies than in those without.

Live birth also occurs in some non-mammalian species, such as guppies and hammerhead sharks; thus it is not a distinguishing characteristic of mammals.

And in a widely circulated news video documenting Zika control efforts in Brazil, El - Sabaawi was troubled by footage of a municipal government worker apparently «wandering around with a bunch of guppies and basically just introducing them in ditches.»

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 riskIn 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 riskin 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.

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.

Led by Dr. Gregor Rolshausen, then a postdoctoral researcher at McGill working with Prof. Andrew Hendry, the team went to study the guppy fish living in polluted areas, comparing their morphology and genetic makeup to those of similar guppies from non-polluted parts of Trinidad.

The study looked at MHC genetic variation in 59 guppy populations across Trinidad, Tobago, Barbados, and Hawaii.

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.

Unlike the majority of fish in which females lay eggs that are later fertilized by males, live - bearers — which include species such as mollies, platies, guppies, swordtails and mosquitofish — have internal fertilization.

Studies in the wild and the lab have mostly supported this idea, but guppies living in waterfall - strewn streams in Trinidad seem to buck the theory.

The swimming ability of predator - prone guppies declined more rapidly with age — an example of neuromuscular aging — than in their predator - free cousins.

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.

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.

Moreover, the guppies extend their gestation during the exact period when their offspring are maturing their feeding capabilities most quickly, said lead author Terry Dial, a postdoctoral researcher in ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University.

Two newborn guppies from Trinidad's Aripo river show clear differences in the maturity of their skeletons: The guppy from upstream (top), which spent longer in gestation, has more mature bone development as indicated by darker staining than the guppy from downstream, which was born earlier in maturity.

The latest salvo in Macro-Nutrient Land is the Calorie Restriction Diet, inspired by animal experiments in which mice, guppies, water fleas, yeast, spiders, Labrador retrievers, a microscopic water invertebrate called the rotifer, and rhesus monkeys are said to live longer on diets that restrict caloric intake.13 Researchers are encouraged by the longevity of a single monkey who has reached 38 years on a diet in which the portion of monkey chow — dried compressed pellets of wheat, corn, soybean, alfalfa, fish and brewer's yeast — has been cut by 30 percent compared to controls.

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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!

After all, there are plenty of fish in the sea, and online dating is an absolutely wonderful way to weed out the guppies from the sharks.

In short, the gorgeous, gulping guppies of Terra are menaced by macho mammalian marauders, and only love can save the day.

Looks like it should be chasing guppies or salmon or sharks, not taking kids to school, which is its proper place in life.

In fact, those bulging arches and the wide, guppy - mouth grille give it the look of a squatting toad, which seems like a terribly unkind thing to say about a car whose styling I actually rather like, but I spotted the similarity this morning when it was hopping along in my rear - view mirror and I haven't been able to shift the thought sincIn fact, those bulging arches and the wide, guppy - mouth grille give it the look of a squatting toad, which seems like a terribly unkind thing to say about a car whose styling I actually rather like, but I spotted the similarity this morning when it was hopping along in my rear - view mirror and I haven't been able to shift the thought sincin my rear - view mirror and I haven't been able to shift the thought since.

Paula K. Allen, Senior Vice President, Nickelodeon Global Publishing mentioned during a press release that «The continued success of SpongeBob SquarePants, Dora the Explorer, Team Umizoomi, and Bubble Guppies has given us tremendous opportunity to develop engaging reading experiences and extend the storytelling and educational curriculum featured in our programming,» said Allen.

Some of the many popular shows represented in FreeTime are Doc McStuffins, Sesame Street, Bubble Guppies, Umizoomi, Paw Patrol and P.J. Masks.

There are many exotic varieties from the Far East, and you may find yourself re-evaluating the role that guppies can play in your inventory.

It was stocked with tetras, mollies, fancy guppies, angelfish, and (of course, in my case) fire - bellied newts.