A new study, by researchers at James Cook University, has also found that bigger fish use the threat of punishment to keep competitors in line. For instance, among goby fish only the largest two individuals, a male and female, have mating rights within a group. All other group members are non-breeding females, each being consistently [...]
For starters, you need to pick your serpae tetra breeding pair – now this may not be as easy as it appears for the simple reason that both the males and the females pretty much look the same. However, males are usually more slim and smaller than females. There is also a visible difference between [...]
A fish species is quite particular about the kind of leader its members choose, a recent study in Current Biology has found. “Stickleback fish preferred to follow larger over smaller leaders,” said Ashley Ward of Sydney University, who was involved in the research. “They also preferred fat over thin, healthy over ill, and so on. [...]
Twenty-nine scientists from India, eleven from Germany and ten others will board German research vessel, Polarstern, in Cape Town and head to the experiment site in southwest Atlantic near Antartica to find an answer to that question. They will stay in the cold and notoriously stormy waters for nearly two months to test a controversial [...]
The Clearwater Marine Aquarium is giving away a free wedding package, where one couple will be chosen to get married on a platform over the main dolphin pool. The aquarium’s dolphins – Nicholas and Winter – will assist in the nuptials. Winter (better known as the dolphin that received a prosthetic tail) was found tangled [...]
Found in the Madeira and Guaporé regions of the Amazon river, and in upper Paraguay, the Serpae Tetra (also known as the Red Minor Tetra or thhe Jewel Tetra), is one of the more colorful tetras that sometimes gets a bad reputation for being a fin nipper. This behavior however, is usually brought on because [...]
Post her visit to the Oceanarium in Singapore, Mumbai Mayor Shubha Raul wants to convert the racecourse into a tourist attraction. “We have suggestions to set up a dolphin park and an aquarium in the central part of the racecourse. The remaining place would then be utilised by BMC. Things are still at a primary [...]
What do you do with an unused phone booth? If you go with the installation done by Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino, as part of the Lyon Light Festival, you would turn it into an aquarium (what were they thinking? fishes making long distance calls?) It’s great as a conversation piece however as you would [...]
