A male three-spined stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus refused the courtship from a female.(5.3MB, 00:00:21)Shot Date: 2005/05/15 Shot Location: 'Honganshozu', Itoyo-town, Ono, Fukui, Japan | ||
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Animalia >Chordata >Osteichthyes >Gasterosteiformes >Gasterosteidae >Gasterosteus >
A gravid female is courting an egg-guarding male by showing its swollen abdomen; the male, however, opens his mouth and chases the female 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.momo051015ga06b)
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