Certainly not everyone.
But a whole bunch of people I’m sure, including myself, have wanted to be
a marine biologist at some point in their life. Whales, dolphins, “nemo” fish, are all just so
cool and the idea of waking up on a boat every morning to study them, commune
with them, has a level of indefinable
appeal on a par with apple pie for Americans or a cup of tea for the
Brits. Here at Kande Beach we at the Maru have channeled that love for wet animals into a passion for understanding
the beautiful biodiversity of Lake Malawi.
Unfortunately we have a feeling that we might be missing a lot of like-minded
wet animal lovers because of a cruel bit of linguistic pedantry. You see technically “marine” biology only
concerns itself with beasties living in our oceans. This definition tragically excludes the
amazing technicolored cichlid fish of Lake Malawi who are unjustly relegated to
the rather less famous domain of “aquatic” biology. Unfortunately definitions matter. Lake Malawi which looks like this,
And has fish like this…
Doesn’t get the attention it deserves because many fish
lovers don’t know that they are excluding it from possible discovery every time
they google “marine biology.” The search
results speak for themselves, google “marine biology” and you get over 21
million hits. Google “aquatic biology”
and you don’t even get 2 million!
So everyone reading this blog post please, please, give us a
hand so that the amazing fish living in Lake Malawi get the attention they
deserve! You can’t care about what you
don’t know and too many people don’t know about the amazing opportunities that
aquatic biology offers to people interested in what they assume to be all “marine”
biology! Even better come out to Kande
and see for yourselves what Lake Malawi has to offer! Whether as a tourist, traveler, volunteer,or intern, everyone is welcome!
