Courtship behavior of female three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus (2)(2.6MB, 00:00:11)Shot Date: 2005/05/15 Shot Location: 'Honganshozu', Itoyo-town, Ono, Fukui, Japan | ||
| species Gasterosteus aculeatus (freshwater type) Key Words | ||
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Animalia >Chordata >Osteichthyes >Gasterosteiformes >Gasterosteidae >Gasterosteus >
Female three-spined sticklebacks court males by showing their swollen abdomen. The females in the video courted a male; the male, however, swam away.
(This video picture was prepared by ¡ÆFriends of Fukui City Museum of Natural History during a project ¡ÆEducational Videos on the Three-spined Stickleback.¡Ç http://www.nature.museum.city.fukui.fukui.jp/friends/itoyo/)
(translated by Asoh)
(Data No.momo051015ga07b)
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