A recent research paper published on guppies:
"Male harassment drives females to alter habitat use and leads to segregation of the sexes."
(Darden & Croft, 2008. Biology Letters, published online August, 2008).
The effects of testosterone (or the ancestral hormone of testosterone and the equivalent in fish), go waaaaaaaaay back.
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