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THE “BIOLOGY OF FISHES
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This author— gives an interesting story
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how impartial, even indierent, the females are; to the
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nature of their partner.
A female had preparedthè bed as
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usual and then conducted a male toit; thisîmale was '
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caugh‘t and removed. She searched for and obtained =‘a
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Second mate; this was also removed, and so on until she
had conducted in all nine males to her spawning bed;
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and when even the last male was caught, she returned
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with a lar'gé-Trout in her train.”
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The courtship of shes,
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'the'ferriale to show, any
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actrv1ty in the choice of a fnate;ias in the case of the Salmon; ' _L
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hasb'eehremàrkèd that the —femaleshoWsf a decided aversion
to having anything :to- do with any male”; no -matter how
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brilliantly cOlÿured he may- be; This is not
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simplytheir“natre to bepassiveand-anabolic,whilst the
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male ' is—iu3ing up h13 stores ”of— energy—in
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resulting phenomena Stan. Jbe under—stoodîfrom this basis;
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Among the marine Téleos'ts there is; nocourtsh1p,so
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