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Parental Care in the Cichlid Fishes of the Victoria Nyanza

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ACCORDING to various natives from different places on the shore of the Victoria Nyanza, many of the lake fishes (all except the silurids, according to one fisherman) carry their fry in their mouths. One variation of the story makes the eggs pass internally from the ovary to the pharynx: in another the eggs or fry are gathered up from the nest in ease of danger.

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    MICHAEL GRAHAM

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GRAHAM, M. Parental Care in the Cichlid Fishes of the Victoria Nyanza. Nature 120, 769 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120769a0

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