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What is a stickleback?

What is a stickleback? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the family Gasterosteidae. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests.
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The two forms of stickleback co-occur in the transition areas between the lake and stream, especially during the breeding season.
Make a big deal of the last stickleback. This game simulates the situation at Hadley Lake situation where the stickleback are made extinct.
Sixty years ago the great ethologist Niko Tinbergen noticed a stickleback fish aggressively displaying toward the window of his fish tank.
As we walk to the edge of a stream, a stickleback freezes, then darts away in a series of rapid zig-zags punctuated by brief pauses.
Nine thousand young stickleback, roach, dace, chub and eels died along an 11 km stretch of the beck.
Small flatties also proved entertaining, and when a small reef was found, I noted a 15-spined stickleback in some weed.

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