Juvenile cuckoo catfish just after leaving cichlid's mouth. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 02 May 2018, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by R.

Cuckoo catfish trick cichlids into caring for their eggs in a strategy known as brood parasitism. Amid cuts to federal funding, US universities tighten budgets, forcing PhD students and early-career ...

This remarkable strategy would be failsafe, were it not for the cunning of the cuckoo catfish, Synodontis multipunctatus. This small bottom dwelling fish lives on the bottom of lake Tanganyika ...