For female guppies, there’s more to life than making babies. A new study finds that guppies experience menopause just like humans and other animals. The study is the first demonstration of menopause ...

Best girlfriends might never let a man come between them — unless they're Trinidadian guppies. Among these fish, the presence of a harassing male can disrupt female social networks, causing ...

A new study has found that female guppies are also plagued by unwanted male gaze. They are so plagued by male guppy sexual harassment, according to the new research, that they become better swimmers ...

Sexual harassment is a burden that females of many species face, and some may go to extreme lengths to avoid it. Female guppies, a popular aquarium fish, may even risk their lives to avoid too much ...

When choosing more attractive guys, girl guppies with larger brains have an advantage over their smaller-brained counterparts. But there’s a cost to such brainpower, and that might help explain one of ...

Guppies might look like mindless, mouth-breathing little bastards, but it turns out some of them make better dating decisions than we do. No, really—these tiny fish, with their infinitesimal brains, ...

We've seen in our simulations that the more brightly colored a male guppy is, the more likely he will be seen -- and eaten -- by a predator. In a simulation or in the wild, where predators are ...

Despite what television might have you believe, zombies aren’t running around and having romantic interactions with the living. Usually. But one species of fish does reproduce posthumously. Female ...

You know how it is: You're minding your own business when up swims a male guppy determined to copulate with you. It's not your fertile time of the month, you're not giving off attractive chemical ...

Female birds do it, female bees do it, even female guppies in the (freshwater) seas do it. Choices by females often play the deciding role in mating behavior: Bronze-winged jacanas keep male harems ...

Female-on-female aggression The researchers also tested the aggressive tendencies of the guppies in all-female or in mixed-sex groups in the presence of a harassing male. By adding a food patch to the ...