If your globe is the vessel you are to use, the sticklebacks will afford you quite as much amusement as any fish you could find, for aside from their quick, lively manner, they are a very handsome fish.
Jack and sticklebacks are extremely interesting, but need a place for themselves, as they eat any other inhabitants of the same aquarium.
Sticklebacks show obvious signs of anger when their territory is invaded by other sticklebacks.
Anger is strikingly shown by many fish, and notoriously by sticklebacks when their territory is invaded by other sticklebacks.
A school of sticklebacks came and swam right through the box, and when they trailed their spikes over the strings, the strings sounded again; but they played in a new way, for now they were tuned to another pitch.
The sticklebacks taught their art to the bass, who became much more expert.
Soon an invading army of other sticklebacks approached and attacked the nest for the purpose of getting at the clusters of eggs it contained.
Sticklebacks live mainly on the spawn of other fish, though they are so careful of their own, and they are therefore naturally hated by trout-preservers and owners of fisheries in general.
It is not surprising under these circumstances to learn that sticklebacks are successful and increasing animals.
The sticklebacks (Gasterosteidae), a family of spiny fishes, confined to the rivers and seas of the north, have from 31 to 41 vertebrae.
In like manner the sharp dorsal and ventral spines of the sticklebacks have been known to cause the death of fishes who swallow them, and even of ducks.
The sticklebacks show this disposition, especially the males.
Man raised his hand in surprise and the sticklebacks darted away.
Raven told him the graylings would be found in clear mountain streams, while the sticklebacks would live along the coast, and that both would be good for food.
And apparently they are very jealous of one another, for two male sticklebacks in their summer dress never seem able to meet without fighting.
Some of the gobies make nests in which to bring up their little ones, just as the sticklebacks do.
As soon as they are finished the female sticklebacks lay their eggs in them.
About the beginning of June, all the male sticklebacks which have not been beaten set to work to build nests.
The roach, bream, and minnows, were put into two of the aquaria by themselves, and the sticklebacks and water-insects into the other.
None of the sticklebacks kept by the boys built nests or bred, so that they missed seeing a very pretty and interesting sight.
Many a fight took place among the sticklebacks and the water-boatmen, in which sometimes the one and sometimes the other came off victorious.
Yes, sticklebacks do build nests, and in the number for January 1866 of Science Gossip is an interesting account of this habit, which I take the liberty of quoting.
The sticklebacks are all pretty and interesting fish, plentifully found on the sea-coast, and in brooks and ponds all over the country.
When Man saw the sticklebacks swimming up the stream with a wriggling motion, he was so surprised that he raised his hands suddenly and the fish darted away.
Look at these graylings," said Raven; "they will be found in clear mountain streams, while the sticklebacksare already on their way to the sea.
As soon as she left, the Sticklebacks began to talk about her.
There are no other fish fathers who work so hard for their children as the Sticklebacks do.
That does not often happen, because to be a Stickleback Great-great-grandfather, one must be four years old, and fewSticklebacks live to that age.
It quite startled the Sticklebacksto hear a Clam say so much.
When the last had gone, he left the old nest and went to the pool where the dull-colored Sticklebacks were.
It was a brook that flowed gently over an even bed, else they would never have gone there, for Sticklebacks like quiet waters.
Indeed, the Stickleback Father once told the little Sticklebacks that they should not stir out of the nest, unless they would promise to keep away from the young Dragon-Flies.
The Sticklebacks turned pale all over, as they do when they are badly frightened.
After he left the company in the quiet pool, many others did the same, until the only Sticklebacks left there were the dull-colored ones, the egg-layers.
The next night she awakened and remembered what the Sticklebacks had said, so she thought she would try shaking her children off.
Page 39] Soon the dull-colored Sticklebackscame swimming past, waving their tails gracefully, and talking to each other.
For though, thanks to an existence mainly upon sticklebacks and minnows--both Jackeymo and Riccabocca had arrived at that state which the longevity of misers proves to be most healthful to the human frame, viz.
Nor will he allow the mother of the young sticklebacks to come near, as she is so fond of her babies that she often forgets herself and eats them up.
Sticklebacks are the smallest known fish when first hatched out of the egg, being nearly invisible.
The nine and the three spined sticklebacks are, without doubt, the most wonderful fish for their size that are common to our waters.
There will be sticklebacks in your brook, but the other fishes do not like them, for they are tough and dry of flesh, and their sharp spines make them hard to swallow and harder still to digest.
The sticklebacks build nests in which to hide their eggs, and over these the male stands guard, defending them with courage which would be dauntless in any animal more than two inches long.
If you supply the sticklebacks with plenty of fine vegetable material, you may induce them to built a nest in the aquarium jar, but they must be caught and placed in the jar early in the season before they spawn.
The sticklebacks are detrimental to the increase of other fishes since they greedily destroy the spawn and young of all fishes that come within their reach.
Among them, however, were four or five little sticklebacks that lived under the shade of a big willow, and these were so quarrelsome that I generally fed them apart from the rest.
Besides the sticklebacks and minnows there are a great many other fishes among the water-folk, but we do not meet them so often, and most of them live in bigger places than the stream or the ditch, or even the duck-pond.
The Imp loves the sticklebacks because they are so bold and jolly and move so quickly and so jerkily that it is hard to follow them.
Illustration] The sticklebacks are like the newts of the duck-pond in quite a number of ways.
Almost the only structure which can be safely mutilated is the adipose fin, and this is often nipped off by sticklebacks and other meddling fish.
The sticklebacks inhabit brackish and fresh waters of the northern hemisphere, species essentially alike being found throughout northern Europe, Asia, and America.
They are found in every cold stream of the region north of Virginia, and they vie with the sticklebacks in their destruction of the eggs and fry of salmon and trout.
The sticklebacks have been noted for their nest-building habits.
Closely related to the sticklebacks is the small family of Aulorhynchidæ, with four soft rays in the ventral fins.
The Stickleback's Nest The three-spined and two-spined sticklebacks live equally well in fresh or salt water; the larger fifteen-spined stickleback is entirely marine.
In the course of a few lessons, both minnows and sticklebacks learned to associate particular colours with food, and other associations were also formed.
It seems that sticklebacks are short-lived fishes, probably breeding only once; and it is reasonable to suppose that their success as a race depends to some extent on the paternal care.
The mud-minnows did not show that they perceived either packet, though they swam close by them; the sticklebacks were intrigued at once.
Like Puss-in-Boots, after the nuptials of his master, Jackeymo only now caught minnows and sticklebacksfor his own amusement.
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