The most ambitious work ever on the fishes of Lake Malawi.

400 of the author's best photographs taken underwater in Africa's rift lakes. The most interesting cichlid species are displayed with a short text explaining their particular behavior. This is a large format coffee-table book linen bound with dust jacket.

Om de mere end 200 arter af cichlider der lever i Tanganyikasøen, og om deres livsbetingelser

Description of Malawi cichlids that are being kept in the aquarium. Maintenance and breeding of Malawi cichlids. Photos of male and female per species. Large fold-out map of the lake with localities where species are collected.

Om de mere end 200 arter af cichlider der lever i Tanganyikasøen, og om deres livsbetingelser.

Cichlid fishes are amazing creatures. In terms of sheer number of species, they are the most successful of all families of vertebrate animals, and the extent and speed with which they have evolved in some African lakes has made them the darlings of evolutionary biologists. But what truly captivates biologists like George Barlow -- not to mention thousands of aquarists the world over -- is the complexity of their social lives and their devotion to family (most species of cichlids are monogamous and many pairs share the responsibility of raising offspring). In this wonderful book, Barlow describes the unusually high intelligence of these fishes, their complex mating and parenting rituals, their bizarre feeding and fighting habits, and the unusual adaptations and explosive rate of speciation that have enabled them to proliferate and flourish. A celebration of their diversity, The Cichlid Fishes is also a marvelous exploration of how these unique animals might help resolve the age-old puzzle of how species arise and evolve.