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fishyhelper288 Fish Guru Posts: 2161 Kudos: 1951 Votes: 137 Registered: 29-Feb-2004	Now I know we ALL atleast us with guppies have/had have laughed at our male guppies flaunting for the females as hard as they can, and then there are the males that appear confused, dancing for corys, bettas, and basicly anyhting bigger than them that could potentialy eat them! Well, it turns out, they know exactly what they are doing, I guess if they dance for a potential danger, the females find them more desirable, and they are the ones that are more likely to breed, if they survive... Amagine that, male guppies do have brains lol
Posted 03-Jul-2006 00:52
katieb Fish Addict Posts: 697 Votes: 69 Registered: 03-Jul-2004	Do you have a cite for that? I'll do graffiti, If you sing to me in French.
Posted 03-Jul-2006 04:15
fishyhelper288 Fish Guru Posts: 2161 Kudos: 1951 Votes: 137 Registered: 29-Feb-2004	no.. I saw it on the most extreme fashion disasters
Posted 03-Jul-2006 04:25
katieb Fish Addict Posts: 697 Votes: 69 Registered: 03-Jul-2004	I found one website: How Females Choose Their Mates by Lee Alan Dugatkin and Jean-Guy J. Godin While studying antipredator behavior in the Trinidadian guppy, we recently obtained some evidence that is consistent with the handicap principle. When a predatory fish nears a school of guppies, males, often in pairs, cautiously approach the potential threat to "inspect" it. Such risky behavior has been observed in many species, and behavioral ecologists have suggested that bold males may swim close to a predator to advertise their vigor to nearby females. In fact, laboratory studies have shown that when no females are present, no male guppy plays the hero by approaching the predator more often than his counterpart. We hypothesized that boldness exhibited during predator inspection might be attractive to females because it should be a reliable indicator of fitness. Less vigorous guppies who tried to "fake" competence in predator inspection would likely be eaten. By using small, custom-built containers that allowed us to position males at different distances from a predator fish, we found that females indeed preferred the most intrepid males. Such courage appears to correlate with color: the males that swim closest to the predator are usually the most colorful. Thus, in the wild, females may have evolved a preference for the flashier males because color is a proxy for boldness and fitness. This is pretty interesting, I wonder how many other experiments have been done in relation to this. Brains? I dont know. Instinct? Seems to be the culprit. I'll do graffiti, If you sing to me in French.
Posted 03-Jul-2006 04:34
fishyhelper288 Fish Guru Posts: 2161 Kudos: 1951 Votes: 137 Registered: 29-Feb-2004	Geeze, and I try to give the guppy credit lol
Posted 03-Jul-2006 04:39
katieb Fish Addict Posts: 697 Votes: 69 Registered: 03-Jul-2004	Any animal that can give birth to to dozens of young on a monthly basis gets a lot of admiration from mer/:' I'll do graffiti, If you sing to me in French.
Posted 03-Jul-2006 04:46
mughal113 Big Fish Posts: 343 Kudos: 160 Votes: 64 Registered: 16-Jun-2006	very interesting indeed But one of my male guppies doesnt really look to have a brain or a "correct" instinct either...I have him for the last four months with other female guppies and a few mollies. He's never shown any interest in females of his own type and is always trying to inseminate molies The white baloon molly probably died of the stress caused by that young fellow and after her, he's after the silver mollie, at least ten times in weight than him..... The female guppies I had with him were juvenniles and still have not bred!
Posted 04-Jul-2006 20:56
fishyhelper288 Fish Guru Posts: 2161 Kudos: 1951 Votes: 137 Registered: 29-Feb-2004	lol, whne I first got guppies, it was to feed my oscar, well, their fry would be used, I had them all together in a bucket and they never bred lol..Only when I bought a preggo female did I get fry..but then, i realized they were my first kiddos, and ended up buying the guppies their own tank lol now the oscar has sence been put to sleep was way too sick and was suffering greatly and my strain of guppies is going strong ..lets just say, my males throw enough color to make a common female throw a yellow female with blue
Posted 07-Jul-2006 04:50


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