Sentences with phrase «male pipefish»

«Male pipefish pregnancy: It's complicated.»

But, in new study published in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, researchers found that the size of male pipefish matters too.

From male pipefish pregnancies to single - father frogs, evolution has produced some truly doting dads — and made the job surprisingly rewarding

Not exact matches

Male sea horses have been lauded as the gallant «Mr. Moms» of the animal world, and pipefish, their close relatives, are devoted fathers too.

And in some animals like seahorses and pipefish, it's the males that get pregnant.

Male Gulf pipefish are left holding the babies: they get pregnant and rear offspring in their bodies.

In these cases, females must compete for access to available mates, and indeed, researchers have found secondary sex traits, such as brightly colored ornamentation, evolving in female pipefish instead of males.

Previous studies have also found that large female pipefish, which are able to transfer more eggs to the male's pouch, are more attractive to the males.

But in some species, the sex roles are reversed and males carry the brood, as in the case of pipefish and other members of the Syngnathus family like the seahorse.