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Archive Home > 2013 > February > 23 > Tests reveal the love life of guppies

Tests reveal the love life of guppies

By ScienceNOW / The Bulletin
February 23, 2013

Drab male guppies have hit upon a mating strategy that could be easily adapted to the bar scene:

Home in on the female besieged by ugly males.

In lab-raised descendents of wild guppies females prefer mates with large orange body spots.

But a new study suggests that less-colorful male guppies....

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