Water Striders - New Study Says It Pays to be Polite

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Omar Tonsi Eldakar of the University of Arizona has recently led a study and concluded that less aggressive male water striders participate in more mating than do the more aggressive male striders. His study reveals that females often rejected the more aggressive mates and accepted the calm, easy-going mates. He performed his study by collecting wild water striders during their mating season and observing the aggressiveness of all the males. He used painted color spots to distinguish the aggressive males from the non-aggressive males. When he introduced the male and female, striders, the females fled the areas with the more aggressive striders and congregated by the easy-going guys.
I think this is a pretty interesting article because it shows that personality matters to even the smallest of animals. It's Mother Nature's way of telling people no to be too pushy. It's a cool experiment and makes me wonder why it was even performed!