The Cichlid Fishes: Nature's Grand Experiment in Evolution (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Cichlid Fishes In this work, Barlow describes the remarkably high intelligence of Cichlid fishes, their complex mating and parenting rituals, their bizarre feeding and fighting habits, and their highly unusual adaptations.
Full description- Publisher: PERSEUS BOOKS
- Published: 07 March 2002
- Format: Paperback 352 pages
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- Categories: Evolution | Marine Biology | Zoology & Animal Sciences | Fishes (ichthyology) | Wildlife: Aquatic Creatures
- ISBN 13: 9780738205281 ISBN 10: 0738205281
- Sales rank: 284,804
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Full description for The Cichlid Fishes
"The Cichlid Fishes is a marvelous narrative about an extraordinary family of creatures. Barlow's fertile synthesis belongs in the pantheon of natural-history classics."-Natural History. 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. With warmth and wit, Barlow describes the remarkably high intelligence of these fishes, their complex mating and parenting rituals, their bizarre feeding and fighting habits, and their highly unusual adaptations. A celebration of their diversity, The Cichlid Fishes is also a marvelous exploration of how these animals might help resolve the age-old puzzle of how species arise and evolve.
