1. Mating and Marriage
Mating refers to the process in which eggs and sperm are brought together inside or outside the body of the female, a process used to reproduce. ... The male, red-bellied fish courts the female, plain-colored bellied fish with a "zig-zag" swimming that leads the female to the nest the male has made to hold her eggs. ... This fish is male, but it has a plain-colored belly resembling the female belly. This male fish patiently waits by another male's nest for a female to lay her eggs and then he unsuspectingly darts in and fertilizes the eggs before the rightful male can do so. ... Th...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate