1. Despite the greater risk of being eaten, male guppies are flashy becuase it helps them to attract mates and pass on their genes to future generations.
2. Poecilia reticulata. From Peru. On average it measures 1.4 inches (3.5 cm).
3. Fat sleeper. Dormitator maculatus. From Southern North America, the Bahamas, and Latin America.
4. If pools are very shallow or right above dams, then predators are unable to get to the guppy populations that live there. These populations tend to be flashier. If guppies are living in a very central area of the stream, where the water is fairly deep and open, there will be many predators and the guppies will be more drab in order to keep from being eaten.
5. John Endler is a revolutionary scientist (biologist, more specifically). He studied Trinidad guppies in the 1970's.
6. Pool 1--Brightly multi-colored with large spots
Pool 2--
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