Judging a fish by its color: For female bluefin killifish, love is a yellow mate

There's an old adage that warns against passing judgment based on appearance, but female bluefin killifish, like many animal species, apparently don't share such human wisdom when choosing a mate. Researchers at the New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering found that female killifish tend to prefer males with a specific fin color: yellow. The preference for yellow was surprising given prior experiments by other groups.

Read the whole article on Physorg

More from Physorg