Bluegills! What strange sex lives they have!
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When it comes to the mating game, fish have some of the strangest ways of thwarting the competition.
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- Alternative mating strategy: a strategy used by male or female animals, often with distinct phenotypes, that differs from the prevailing mating strategy.
- Dependent selection: an evolutionary process by which the fitness of a phenotype or genotype depends on the phenotype or genotype composition of a given population.
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