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A bunch of
Pseudotropheus crabro
in the natural habitat (near Penga
Penga). Some individuals are yellow-brown, others very dark in color.
There is aKampango in thebackground.
ThisKampango
(Bagrusmeridionalis
) isactingas fostermother toyoung
haplochromine cichlids.There is clearly anenormous instinctivebarrier
to eating fishes the same size as her own young. The young catfishes
benefit from the symbiosis.
Thepredatory
Melanochromisbaliodigma -
hereatGomeRock - looks very
similartosomeofthecolorvariations in
Pseudotropheuscrabro.
Doesthisfish
use this factascamouflage inorder tohunt inKampangonests?
