Female fish see right through false suitors' pickup acts
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 - 12:56
in Earth & Climate
In a dark, damp corner of a University of Wisconsin-Madison laboratory, Jenny Boughman dropped a 3-inch, three-spined female fish into a fish tank, and waited. She sat perfectly still as she watched a male fish swim out slowly from its nest, beneath a cracked flower pot.