Noise from motorboats is making fish become bad parents, and reducing the chance of their young surviving, research led by marine experts at the University of Exeter has shown.
Ecology
Jun 6, 2017
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The males of some species go to extraordinary lengths to attract females – but some simply cheat. Take African cichlid fish. Many males build underwater "sandcastle" structures that the females use to judge the quality ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 30, 2017
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Okayama University researchers confirm the role of mate-guarding in males for blocking the female's visual familiarity with rival males to improve mating success in a medaka fish model.
Plants & Animals
Nov 21, 2016
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Colour-changing fish have only one skin, but they use it to communicate social status, attract mates, avoid predators and more. So what happens when those functions collide?
Plants & Animals
Aug 15, 2016
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Big isn't always better when it comes to the size of male genitals.
Plants & Animals
May 18, 2016
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(Phys.org)—A female cichlid hybrid fish has been observed to have grown male reproductive organs, impregnate itself and then to have offspring, a team of researchers in the U.K. are reporting in a paper published in the ...
Evolutionary biologists often debate on whether sexual selection can lead to new species. Most studies have focused on natural selection or, for the few studies that considered sexual selection, on how picky females select ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 27, 2016
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Female fish in the Bahamas have developed ways of showing males that "No means no."
Evolution
Aug 19, 2015
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A new study offers insight into a process that could lead one species to diverge into two, researchers report in the American Naturalist.
Plants & Animals
Mar 6, 2015
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Fish just want to have fun, according to a University of Tennessee, Knoxville, study that finds even fish "play."
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2014
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