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quagga

South African zebra that became extinct in the 1880s. It was brown, with a white tail and legs, and unlike surviving zebra species, had stripes only on its head, neck, and forequarters.

In the early 1980s DNA extracted from the skin of a stuffed quagga was found to be identical to that of the common zebra Equus burchelli, proving that the quagga was not a separate species but a subspecies of zebra. In 1987 the Quagga Project Committee was formed to attempt to recreate a quagga through selective breeding of E. burchelli. By 1998 the project consisted of 53 zebras with significant reduction in stripy markings on the body.


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In Lord Moreton's famous hybrid from a chestnut mare and male quagga, the hybrid, and even the pure offspring subsequently produced from the mare by a black Arabian sire, were much more plainly barred across the legs than is even the pure quagga.
Then I saw what had happened; we had stumbled upon a herd of sleeping quagga, on to the back of one of which Good actually had fallen, and the brute naturally enough got up and made off with him.
 
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