Date A Water Strider, Where Nice Guys Get The Girls
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 14:56
in Earth & Climate
Female water striders don't like the bad boys and they don't even have to reach the age of 30 before they wise up about choices in males. Water striders are those insects commonly seen skittering hurriedly across the surface of streams but when it comes to romance, male water striders who played it cool mated with more females than did groups of aggressive males, according to a study led by Omar Tonsi Eldakar of the University of Arizona's Arizona Research Laboratories. read more
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