There are other animals besides the cuckoo who smuggle their offspring into another animal’s nest. The synodontis multipunctatus, which lives in Lake Tanganyika in Africa and is better known as the cuckoo catfish, is just as cunning as the cuckoo. This savvy parasite, like the cuckoo bird, places its eggs among those of cichlids. To protect their eggs, cichlids carry their eggs in their mouths.