Fish parents also appear to spank their kids to make them more cooperative in fulfilling their responsibilities. Neolamprologus savoryi, a species of cichlid fish native to Lake Tanganyika in ...

Kigoma, Tanzania – Just as dawn’s first rays start creeping over western Tanzania’s gentle hills, a constellation of scattered torchlights moving across the water signals the arrival of the ...

Fish appear to spank their children—and it makes their kids more cooperative in their ... fish named Neolamprologus savoryi—native to Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa—physically punish ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the ...

DODOMA, May 14 (Xinhua) -- Fishing activities in Lake Tanganyika, shared by Tanzania, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, will be closed from May 15 to Aug. 15 to allow for ...

Nothing about cichlids is ordinary. In Lake Tanganyika alone, at the divide between Central and East Africa, roughly 250 species evolved from a single ancestor over 9.7 million years.

As fishing pressure has increased on Lake Tanganyika, its level has also been rising, inundating shoreline communities. Sedimentation as a result of farming, infrastructure projects and ...

The second-largest lake in Africa, Lake Tanganyika is adorned with its sandy beaches that span four nations. But the ravages of overfishing and pollution have taken a toll on its delicate ecosystem.

Katie Wagner, an associate professor in UW’s Department of Botany, holds up a Lates angustifrons, a relative of the Nile perch endemic to Lake Tanganyika. Wagner, who specializes in evolutionary ...