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It is not every day that an announcement is made seeking a mate for a fish, but what makes this announcement even more bizarre is that the announcement is looking for a mate for an ugly fish.
A London Zoo has launched a hunt to find a female partner for an extremely ugly but endangered fish.
The Mangarahara cichlid is about to die after dams built on the river Mangarahara, Madagascar led to a dry habitat.
Currently, the London Zoo has two male fish and are desperately seeking a female in order to help save the species. Berlin Zoo has another fish, but also a male.
London Zoo Aquarium curator Brian Zimmerman said: "They are not a particularly beautiful fish. They are
wonderfully ugly, unusual, more of a connoisseur type of fish. It might be too late for their wild counterparts, but if we can find a female it is not too late for the species.
We urge anyone who has or knows someone who may own these critically endangered fish, which are silver in color with a orange tail on top, so we can start a breeding program here at the zoo to return them from the brink of extinction."
“I am not sure why they call this particular fish ‘ugly’, as I have seen the pictures and I don’t think it is ugly. If I had the female fish I wouldn't definitely give it up in order to save the species from extinction. I hope the zoo finds a female fish soon,” Tara Valdez, 32, of London, England told YourJewishNews.com after learning about the endangered ugly fish.