stickleback
IPA: stˈɪkʌɫbæk
noun
- Any one of numerous species of small fish of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct nests from weeds.
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Examples of "stickleback" in Sentences
- Collision and sinking of submarine Stickleback.
- The weapon was also known as the 'stickleback'.
- The most important small fish is the stickleback.
- Correlated evolution and dietary change in fossil stickleback.
- I'd like to put it also on the new three spined stickleback page.
- Trout and three spined stickleback also occur in the same habitat.
- A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak.
- For, like almost all polygamists, your stickleback is a terrible fighter.
- The run up to this saw the first arcs of new series Stickleback and Kingdom.
- The run up to this saw the first arcs of new series Stickleback and Kingdom .
- Another example of fixed action patterns is the red bellied stickleback fish .
- Pink Lake also has a desalinized variant of the three spined stickleback fish.
- On the crest of a cross-grained stickleback, that is caught with a crooked pin;
- Milinski found that stickleback fish rely on the Tit-for-Tat strategy during this risky maneuver.
- When held in the right place, it could create the illusion that a single stickleback was accompanied by another scout.
- A kingfisher, an airborne jewel, whirrs past, stickleback in its beak, and disappears into a thicket of riparian willow.
- Yet each little fish has an understandable incentive to hang back a little and let the other stickleback soak up more of the risk.
- One wife, however, does not suffice to fill the nest with eggs; and the stickleback is a firm believer in the advantages of large families.
- A real-life example of such a contest was reported in 1987, when Manfred Milinski, now the director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Ploen, Germany, studied the behavior of stickleback fish.
- The money came from the proceeds of a special experiment devised by Manfred Milinski, of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, a connoisseur of food and fine wine, a zoologist and naturalist who feels equally at home with people and stickleback fish, as we saw in chapter 1.