There are concerned, overprotective parents, and then there are cichlid fish. After a male cichlid fertilizes the female’s eggs, she holds her entire brood of embryos inside her mouth for two weeks ...

Raising babies can be exhausting—so much so that some mouthbrooding mothers snack on their young, according to a new study. A central African cichlid fish, Astatotilapia burtoni—commonly called Burton ...

Jake Sawecki, a former biology graduate student, has published his research on filial cannibalism in cichlid fish. The research, published in Biology Letters, was completed during his time in the ...

Early offspring separation from mothers causes social deprivation. Mouthbrooding, when eggs and fry are incubated in the buccal cavity of the parent, is one of the reproductive strategies in fish. The ...

University of Maryland researcher Cheng-Yu Li was in the lab one day when he noticed a fish with a protruding jaw: a telltale sign that it was incubating eggs in its mouth, keeping its offspring safe ...

Aequidens paraguayensis from South America is a biparental larvophilic mouthbrooder. Adhesive eggs are laid on a substrate and fanned until hatching (substratebrooding). The hatching larvae are taken ...

Juvenile cuckoo catfish just after leaving cichlid's mouth. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 02 May 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R. Bla&zcaron ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Supported by evidence for assortative mating and polygynandry, sexual selection through mate choice was suggested as the main force driving ...

The cardinalfish has survived for 50 million years, but its most successful survival strategy could be undone by rapid global warming. Cardinalfish breed several times a year, with the female ...