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Fierce Fighters, Less Attractive Lovers: Male Stalk-Eyed Flies with Short Eyestalks
Amazingly, scientists have learned that the mating and fighting behavior of the stalk-eyed fly, *Teleopsis dalmanni*, is influenced by the fact that males with shorter eyestalks turn out, though less preferred by females, to be so much more aggressive in contests over mates. In this study, the researchers investigate how both arms of reproductive success—the…