Searching for a Female Mangarahara Cichlid
A male Mangarahara cichlid at the London Zoo. (Photo: Wiki Commons)
The London Zoo has two of the last three males left of the Mangarahara cichlid tropical fish species.
Now they're looking for a female in order to avoid the species going into extinction.
The species' natural habitat is the Mangarahara River in Madagascar, the answer to our Geo Quiz for Friday.
But that river is dry now. Anchor Marco Werman has the details on this story.
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