These free electronic jigsaw puzzles, of African fishes and scenery, are self-contained packages. You can download them to your PC and solve them on-screen without additional software.
If this feature proves to be popular, I will add more puzzles from time to time (...unless they prove to be too popular and make me exceed my available bandwidth!). Please download with restraint: Each puzzle package is nearly one megabyte. Once downloaded, simply double-click the file to work the puzzle. All photos are copyright © by me, Dr. M. K. Oliver.
These games do not contain any spyware, adware, viruses, trojans, or other malicious garbage. I hope you enjoy working these as much as I do!
(The very nice Jigs@w Puzzle program I used to create these can be obtained from TIBO.)
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A breeding male Mylochromis lateristriga, one of the oblique-striped "Haps" of Lake Malawi.
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At the end of a long day of research diving, a biologist emerges from Lake Malawi on Chembe beach, Cape Maclear. (Yep, it's me.) Ken McKaye took the picture.
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A stunningly attractive, unidentified male haplochromine cichlid from Lake Victoria - possibly in the genus Harpagochromis (thank you Mark Smith), but even this is uncertain. The species may now be extinct. I photographed it
in London in 1971 in the home of airline flight engineer Bob Heath (who collected it in Uganda).
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Sunset over Monkey Bay, Malawi. Thumbi Island East is at left; in the distance, across the southeast arm of the lake, the far Malawi shore is visible.
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Lake George, Uganda: a marabou stork sits on a small research boat used by the International Biological Programme team, 1971.
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Fishing canoes on the southeast arm of Lake Malawi, near Boadzulu Island. A surprising number of men can stand up in these dugout canoes without capsizing them - which is a good thing, since many of the fishermen reportedly cannot swim.
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Outstanding example of a rare OB male Labeotropheus trewavasae, a so-called "marmalade cat," fresh from the water at Thumbi Island West, Lake Malawi.
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Another beautiful but unidentified male haplochromine cichlid from Lake Victoria photographed in London
at Bob Heath's home. He collected it in Uganda in 1971.
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Here's an unusual subject for a jigsaw puzzle: a radiograph (x-ray) of Aristochromis christyi, a predatory haplochromine cichlid of Lake Malawi. The beaked jaws and small, sharp teeth are quite clear on the image.
