A male stickleback will be aggressive toward other male sticklebacks that invade its territory. Of the following, which will tend to elicit the strongest aggressive response?
a. a female stickleback
b. an object that has the rough shape of a stickleback
c. an object that has a red patch on the bottom
d. a fish of another species
Ans: c. an object that has a red patch on the bottom
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