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Description: Young humpback chub (Gila cypha) swimming in Shinumo Creek, inside Grand Canyon National Park soon after release. They are part of a reintroduction program of this federally protected specie with the goal to establish a second population, after they became extinct everywhere except a small part of Little Colorado River.
Title: Gila cypha IMGP1312
Credit: National Park Service: http://www.nps.gov/grca/parknews/news_2009-08-17_chub.htm
Author: Melissa Trammell, NPS
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