【英语时差8,16】孔雀鱼择偶-更喜欢冒险者（上）

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Nobody could attract women like James Bond. They just couldn’t resist his manly¹ qualities, like his penchant² for dodging³ bullets, or leaping from airplanes. Well, those old Bond movies look kind of silly these days, especially the dim-witted female characters who fawn⁴ all over Bond at the drop of a hat. But there’s something interesting going on here. The suggestion seems to be that males who take risks are more attractive to females. Studies done on another species — guppies — suggest just such a mechanism⁵ for the attractiveness of risk-taking. Researchers Lee Dugatkin and Jean-Guy Godin noticed a fish equivalent of risk-taking behavior: when a predator⁶ is introduced into the tank, male guppies swim up to it. The females watch from a distance. The guppy that swims closest to the predator, without being eaten, is then regarded as more attractive by the females. It gets more mates.