Cichlid fish are seen sucking up sand and spitting it out in a pile to impress females and intimidate rivals with their 'sandcastles'. The mounds of sand, called bowers, are each subtly different in ...
A male cichlid builds a sand castle in Lake Malawi in Africa to attract a mate. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by ...
Ryan York from Stanford University has looked at the various courtship rituals of cichlid fish at different depths in Lake Malawi. His findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and ...