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True love may be hard to find -- but for one group of highly endangered African penguins, it's just a bit easier thanks to the helping hand of a few skilled matchmakers. In this case, they're biologists at the New England Aquarium playing the role of Cupid to a group of African penguins, members of a species which, without a serious baby-boom, may be extinct in less than twenty years. Fortunately, the bird specialists have a magic arrow or two left in their quiver. "We can keep the species alive by making love happen,'' says the aquarium's senior penguin biologist.Article continues: Biologists Help Endangered Penguins Find True Love
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