November 8th, 2006

Quaggas - An Introduction

Once found in great numbers in South Africa, this extinct species of plain zebras is nowhere present on the planet. It was distinguished from other zebras by having the usual vivid marks on the front part of the body only. In the mid-section, the stripes faded and the dark, inter-stripe spaces became wider, and the hindquarters were a plain brown. The quagga had been hunted to extinction for meat, hides, and to preserve feed for domesticated stock. The last wild quagga was probably shot in the late 1870s, and the last specimen in captivity died 1883.

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