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Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi
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About Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

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The sleeper cichlid, which you get in Lake Malawi, does a thing called thanatosis — where you pretend to be dead.

from No Such Thing As Doing A Solzhenitsyn, 2026-03-26 at 00:23:19 · read transcript

Other times Lake Malawi came up

  1. There are a few different ideas. One of them was a team of scientists led by Christopher Schultz, who looked at this and found that historically, the level of the water in Lake Malawi is about 700 meters deep, I think at the deepest. It has gone up and down and up and down and up and down, and it's plunged by at least.

    No Such Thing As Doing A Solzhenitsyn, 2026-03-26 · listen

  2. If you're in a remote enough place, it's actually wiser to have sex with that person because you might not see someone for days if you're going on a country walk you'd know it's safest to I guess it's our responsibility to repopulate the earth what? We're in Henley I found a pretty weird fish that I want to mention yeah this is called the Calagano and it's in Lake Malawi in East Africa and it's what's known as kind of like a sleeper fish right It does this thing where...

    No Such Thing As A Golden Chicken, 2022-07-01 · listen

  3. What? We're in Henley. I found a pretty weird fish that I want to mention. Yeah. This is called the Calogono and it's in Lake Malawi in East Africa and it's what's known as kind of like a sleeper fish. Right. This thing where it pretends not to be a fish for most of its life and then it just comes to life as a fish. Exactly. It's sort of, you know, hanging out with some crabs.

    433: No Such Thing As A Golden Chicken, 2022-07-01 · listen

  4. Then he took to swimming. Isn't that... Just imagine, six years from now, we could all be on the northern shore of Lake Malawi. Race. Ready to set up.

    No Such Thing As Doing A Solzhenitsyn, 2026-03-26 · listen

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