Nest-building and communal care of young byTilapia rendalli dumeril (pisces, cichlidae) in Lake Malawi
Abstract
Tilapia rendalli of Lake Malawi dig large tunnels in their nests and practise communal care of young. Both these traits are considered to be antipredator adaptations.
- Publication:
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Environmental Biology of Fishes
- Pub Date:
- May 1981
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00002787
- Bibcode:
- 1981EnvBF...6..219R
- Keywords:
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- Predation;
- Parental behaviour;
- Haplochromis;
- Pseudotropheus;
- Melanochromis;
- Cyathochromis;
- Serranochromis;
- Fishes