QUAGA


The quagga (Equus quagga quagga) is an extinct subspecies of plains zebra that lived in South Africa until the 19th century. It's name was derived from it's call that sounded like "kwa-ha-ha". 

Is belived that the quagga could have been 257 cm long and 125-135 cm tall at the shoulder. It was distinguished from other zebras by the pattern that was mainly on the front part of the body. 
The last wild population lived in the Orange Free State and was extinct in the wild by 1878. The last captive specimen died in Amsterdam on 12 August 1883. Only one quagga was ever photographed alive. In 1984 the quagga was the first extinct animal to have it's DNA analysed, and the Quagga Project is trying to bring them alive again. 


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