Sentences with phrase «of guppy»

Other aspects of guppy ecology were consistent with classical theories.

Mating between mosquito fish — a relative of the guppy — is far from romantic.

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

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.

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.

While some of the fish were left alone, others were exposed to what looked like a predator — a doll version of a guppy - eating fish called a pike cichlid.

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.»

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

Set up display tanks that match their colors to the dominant colors of the guppies housed inside.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

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

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.

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He can't, of course, tell his angelfish or his guppies to choose, say, the larger array of dots.

Again, we anticipate the emergence of a new species: the blue guppy.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

The view nowadays is that ornaments such as the peacock's stunning train, the splendid plumes of birds of paradise, bowerbirds» love nests, deer antlers, fins on guppies and just about everything to do with the mandarin goby are indications of male quality.

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.

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.

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.

Male guppies will also mate with females of another species called Skiffia, which have no defences against the damage the gonopodium can cause.

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.

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.

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.

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 since.

It's got the same clean, subdued lines of its Sonata sister, which won't raise any pulses but are a definite improvement over the guppy - mouthed look of the last car.

Books features a collection of digital titles featuring stories from PAW Patrol, Blaze and the Monster Machines, Bubble Guppies, Dora the Explorer, Dora and Friends, SpongeBob SquarePants, Team Umizoomi, Wallykazam, and Blues Clues!

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.

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

If you browse around online, especially on Facebook, you will see a great many photos of exotic varieties of bettas, swordtails, guppies, glowfish, flowerhorns (cichlid hybrids), etc..