Sentences with phrase «more guppy»

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

But beached by technical ailments and rendered toothless by advancing technology, it was ultimately more guppy than great white.

Not exact matches

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?

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

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

Although an emeritus professor, technically retired, Butterworth continues to research the neurodevelopmental roots of number sense, recently showing that guppies, like humans, possess approximate and precise number systems, and that dyscalculic adults have no more trouble telling the time than numerate people.

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.

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.

«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.

While female guppies are lured by bright colors, predators are more likely to see, and attack, flashier male guppies.

But using this information to pick a good mate requires female guppies to use more brainpower

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.

But new studies of guppies suggest that we need more sophisticated theories to describe how evolution shapes life span.

Contrary to evolutionary predictions, guppies forced to share their pool with predators age more slowly.

Guppies might have some more wisdom to share about how lurking danger — and other forces — shape aging.

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

Animals from waters with guppy - hungry predators aged more slowly than did fish from pools cut off from predators by waterfalls — an apparent contradiction of the classical theory.

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.

It's more shark than happy guppy.

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.