PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] -- Africa's Lake Malawi is home to hundreds of species of cichlids, the freshwater fish whose broad array of colors make them popular denizens of household ...

More than a thousand species of African cichlid live in Lake Malawi, and of these, several hundred are endemic. At 300 miles long and almost 300 miles wide, Lake Malawi is one of the largest in ...

Researchers report genetic analysis of bower building behaviors in cichlid fishes in Lake Malawi. Cichlid fishes in Lake Malawi, Africa display species-specific innate behaviors related to bower ...

More than 1000 closely related but different species of cichlid fish live in Lake Malawi in south-east Africa – more than in any other lake in the world. “They are remarkable,” says ...

Scientists are diving into the question Ben Crair Lake Malawi formed in a valley where the African tectonic plate is the process of splitting in two. Getty Images I first learned about cichlids ...

The property is home to many hundreds of cichlid fish, nearly all of which are endemic to Lake Malawi, and are known locally as "mbuna". The mbuna fishes display a significant example of biological ...

Scuba divers visited several spots at Lake Malawi in 2016 to search for cichlid fish, George Turner wrote in a study published Dec. 10 in the peer-reviewed Journal of Fish Biology. The lake is ...