11/14/2023 0 Comments Half zebra animal![]() Despite highly sophisticated genetic manipulations being used and reproduction in animals and plants being supported and enhanced through intricate techniques, extinction is still as final as it has always been. However, the extinct Quagga was not a zebra species of its own but one of several subspecies or local forms of the Plains Zebra. If a species of animal or plant has disappeared from the earth, either through natural causes, or through mankind’s activities, the loss is irreversible. Eventually the term “Quagga” became used, especially in Afrikaans, for any zebra, including the other two species, Mountain Zebra and Grevy Zebra (the latter which occurrs only in East Africa). Unfortunately this distinction has often been omitted, and both forms were simply referred to as “Quagga”. The Quagga’s nearest relative, the “true” Burchell’s Zebra, subspecies Equus quagga burchelli (also extinct), to the north of the Quagga’s distribution, became known as the “Bontquagga”. Pronounced correctly, the double “g” as a guttural “ch”, as in the Scottish word “loch”, and with the emphasis on the first syllable.” Quagga” is an imitation of the animals call, which it shared with the other Plains Zebras. The name “Quagga” has been spelt in a variety of ways, according to the language in which it is used. The name “Quagga” has been spelt in a variety of ways, ra and Grevy Zebra (the latter which occurs only in East Africa). This unusual name for a variety of zebra has been adopted from the Hottentot speaking indigenous people of the South African interior. This exhibit is situated at the Naturalis museum in Leiden, Holland. ![]() These photographs, taken by Duco Quanjer of Holland, show the Artis mare that died in 1883. However, the tale is unsupported by photographs or other confirmatory evidence or sitings and therefore must remain to some degree speculative. Although the last authenticated quagga died in approximately 1883, there is an anecdotal account of a lone quagga surviving into the 1930s, related in Attilio Gatti’s lively account of adventures in Africa entitled “Here is the Veld”. In this book is a story of the last of the quaggas. ![]() How the Project Came About, by Reinhold Rau
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