Fish, like people, must pay for their accommodation
Otherwise bad things may happen to them
TENANTS WHO don’t pay the rent are a bane of landlords everywhere. And landlords who use heavy tactics to enforce payment are similarly a bane of tenants. Nor are these problems confined to human beings. Property-owning cichlid fish seem as ruthless about receiving what they are owed as any 19th-century tenement holder in the Lower East Side of New York.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Lake-bed properties”
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