London Zoo seeks female mate for near-extinct fish

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This is an undated image made available Friday, May 10, 2013, by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) of a male Mangarahara cichlid. Aquarists at the ZSL, London Zoo, are launching an urgent worldwide appeal to find a female mate for the last remaining males of a critically endangered fish species. The Mangarahara cichlid (Ptychochromis insolitus) is believed to be extinct in the wild, due to the introduction of dams drying up its habitat of the Mangarahara River in Madagascar, and two of the last known individuals are residing in ZSL London Zoo’s aquarium. (AP Photo/ZSL)LONDON (AP) — The London Zoo is urgently seeking a female mate for the last-known males of a critically endangered fish species.


May 10, 2013 12:55 pm

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