{"id":267316,"date":"2017-01-30T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=a6a716089fc0a625bd24c73da0fe4507"},"modified":"2017-01-30T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:33:13","slug":"fish-show-cheating-can-be-better-than-playing-by-the-rules-in-the-mating-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=267316","title":{"rendered":"Fish show cheating can be better than playing by the rules in the mating game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The males of some species go to extraordinary lengths to attract females \u2013 but some simply cheat. Take African cichlid fish. Many males build underwater &#8220;sandcastle&#8221; structures that the females use to judge the quality of their potential mates. But, as my colleagues and I found out during a recent study, some males don&#8217;t bother with this show of construction prowess, and instead are able to father offspring by engaging in &#8220;sneaky mating&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The males of some species go to extraordinary lengths to attract females &ndash; but some simply cheat. Take African cichlid fish. Many males build underwater &#8220;sandcastle&#8221; structures that the females use to judge the quality of their potential mates. But, as my colleagues and I found out during a recent study, some males don&#8217;t bother with this show of construction prowess, and instead are able to father offspring by engaging in &#8220;sneaky mating&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267317,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267316\/revisions\/267317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}