LONDON: London Zoo has launched a hunt to find a female mate for a “gorgeously ugly” fish threatened by extinction. The Mangarahara cichlid is on the brink of dying out after dams built at the Mangarahara River, Madagascar caused its habitat to dry up. London Zoo currently have two male fish and are desperately searching for a female in order to help save the species.
Berlin Zoo have another of the fish, but that is also male. London Zoo Aquarium curator Brian Zimmerman told the BBC (via Metro): “They are not a particularly beautiful fish — they are gorgeously ugly, unusual… more of a connoisseur’s type of fish. “It might be too late for their wild counterparts, but if we can find a female it’s not too late for the species.
“We are urgently appealing to anyone who owns or knows someone who may own these critically-endangered fish, which are silver in color with an orange-tipped tail, so that we can start a breeding program here at the zoo to bring them back from the brink of extinction.”
London Zoo appeals for female mate for ‘ugly’ fish
