Figure 1: The adaptive radiation of African cichlid fish. Exceptional phenotypic variation, even among closely related species, makes cichlids different from most other fish groups, including ...

Sexual selection. Female cichlids lay a small number of relatively large eggs, and care for their young for several weeks until the yolk is absorbed. Most of the African lake cichlids are maternal ...

More than a thousand species of African cichlid live in Lake Malawi ... After a long and indulgent snorkeling excursion, I visited the Red Zebra Lodge near the town of Salima on the lake ...