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- noun Plural form of
stickleback .
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Examples
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Tit for tat in sticklebacks and the evolution of cooperation.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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If a pike shows up in the neighborhood, two sticklebacks often swim together in short spurts toward the open mouth of the predator to size him up.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The man who sold more than 118 million albums with Dire Straits has fond memories of his childhood: especially golden summer holidays spent fishing for sticklebacks in the grandly-named River Jordan, which flowed by the bottom of his garden.
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When a big predator such as a pike looms, one or more of a school of sticklebacks will approach to see how dangerous it is.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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The sticklebacks evolved new colors and shapes as they adapted to their new homes.
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Mr. KINGSLEY: We didn't choose them because we want to understand sticklebacks themselves.
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(Soundbite of movie theme song, "Jaws") PALCA: He's got three sticklebacks.
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I spent a lot of time in all three, dissecting cowpats, climbing trees, building dens and dams, tormenting sticklebacks, being Will Scarlet or Hawkeye or (if no one was looking) an Ent. For some reason I relate all this to Louv within three minutes of meeting him (he invites it, I think).
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PALCA: Until about 15,000 years ago, sticklebacks lived in the ocean, and they all pretty much looked the same.
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Kingsley has collected sticklebacks from around the world: big ones, small ones, brown ones, white ones.
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