African cichlids are among the most interesting fish in the freshwater hobby for many reasons, but mouthbrooding is near the top of the list - a survival strategy so effective that it looks alarming ...

A study of Australian fish that care for offspring through mouthbrooding shows that things underwater are not always as monogamous as they seem. By Elizabeth Preston Lurking among the underwater ...

In an extreme feat of parenting, some female cichlid fish carry their eggs and babies in their mouths for about two weeks. In this way, the young fish and fish-to-be are protected from predators in ...

Raising babies in your mouth is no guarantee that they’re your own — as some Australian mouthbrooding fish can attest 1. Males belonging to some species of river-dwelling fish guard their young by ...

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 ...

While many creatures lay eggs or give birth to live young in familiar ways, some have developed unique methods to protect their offspring. One such strategy is mouthbrooding, where parents carry and ...

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 ...

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 ...