Courting Behavior Video of Armourless Male Three-Spined Stickleback

A 49.2 MB video file from 2026 shows an armourless male three-spined stickleback from Loch Bharpa, North Uist, courting and leading a female to a nest. The supplementary material was authored by Carl Smith and supports research on nest architecture and aggression driving sexual isolation between stickleback ecotypes.

Use Cases

• Analyze male courtship gestures and leading behavior from the video to quantify mating rituals.
• Study nest location and construction by observing the nest built on top of an artificial aquarium plant.
• Compare the physical morphology and movement of the armourless male ecotype from Loch Bharpa to other populations.

Strengths

• Video data provides direct observational evidence of complex animal behavior.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0 for reuse.
• Recent update from April 2026 indicates current availability.

Limitations

• Single video file limits statistical analysis and generalizability.
• 49.2 MB size indicates a short or low-resolution clip, restricting detailed frame-by-frame analysis.
• Lack of accompanying quantitative measurements or annotations requires manual feature extraction.

Provenance

Source

Figshare, authored by Carl Smith.

Collection Method

Video recording of aquarium-based observation.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.

Geography

Loch Bharpa, North Uist, Scotland.