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What fish lays its eggs for other fish to raise them like cuckoos?

11 June 2013

There are several kinds of fish, which carry their impregnated eggs in their mouths. Synodontis multipunctata, or cat-fish-cuckoo, learnt to make use of this mechanism. Sensing odor of its victims spawning eggs, such cat-fish would quickly swim up to them, eat a part of their eggs replacing them with its own, then the “adoptive mother” would take the eggs into its mouth. Moreover, young fish of the cat-fish-cuckoo hatch earlier and eat the remaining native fish eggs.