But an athletic, evolved guppy would scoff at that accomplishment, if you can consider guppies athletic.
That probably comes as no consolation to your children if their guppies jump out of their fish bowl.
Soares and Bierman reported the jumping guppies started from a still position, swam backwards slowly, then changed direction and hurtled into the air.
Introducing fish like guppies, he said, was one of the main reasons why the number of malaria cases each year in India was falling.
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Guppies can splash in the Little Kahunas play area, while bigger kids can slip down the high-speed tube slides or shoot hoops in the pool.
By dispersing, guppies move away from areas of heavy predation, minimize competition with one another and keep the species' genetic variability high, the researchers said.
Supplying ponds with guppies is a cheap alternative to buying insecticides.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Fish eat away at malaria in India
With many mouths to feed but a good deal of free labor--Kenny is the youngest of nine children--the family cast about for a new business opportunity and started breeding guppies in the concrete pigpens.
The Maryland researchers concluded that while many fish launch out of the water into the air to capture prey, migrate, or avoid predators, the guppies have a different evolutionary motive: to reach all the available habitat in Trinidad's mountain streams.
University of Maryland biologist Daphne De Freitas Soares and biology lecturer Hilary S. Bierman discovered the guppies' ability while using high-speed videography and digital imaging to analyze the jumping behavior of nine guppies from a wild Trinidadian species, Poecilia reticulata, related to the familiar pet-shop fish.
By the time O's starter Jason Berken uncorked his first pitch to New York leadoff hitter Alex Cora, swaths of empty seats lined the lower bowl down the left field and right field lines (as for the upper level, a few guppies in a sea of green seats).
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