Quagga
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QUAGGA, or Couagga, an animal of the genus Equus (see Horse), nearly allied to Burchell's zebra, formerly met with in vast herds on the great plains of South Africa between the Cape Colony and the Vaal river, ...
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The quagga was a large, hoofed type of zebra that went extinct in the 1880's. It went extinct in the wild in the 1870's; it was hunted to extinction for its meat and hide.
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(kwg´), extinct type of zebra. It formerly inhabited open plains in S Africa, where its range overlapped that of the common zebra (Equus burchelli).
Quaggas lived in desert environments in Africa. These social animals were closely related to the modern-day and .
The quagga disappeared from the wild by 1878, and the last zoo specimen died in 1883. All that remains today are nineteen pelts, a few skulls, three photographs and a few paintings.
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The quagga, Equus quagga, is a type of ZEBRA that once inhabited southern Africa ...
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The genus includes all zebras, horses and the wild ass, with the following recent species in Africa: ...
The quagga (Equus quagga) is a recently extinct mammal, closely related to . It was a yellowish-brown zebra with stripes only on its head, neck and foreboday.
This species represents the larger end of the prehistoric horse spectrum - it was about the size of a mustang. It was a stoutly built animal and resembled the extinct quagga (Equus quagga) or the modern Burchell's zebra (Equus burchelli), ...
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The Quagga - A lost species of Zebra
150 years ago a fourth species of zebra, the quagga (Equus quagga), was extremely common in South Africa.
The quagga became extinct in 1883
The Tarpan went extinct, due to sport hunting.
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One extinct subspecies of the Plains zebra, which was once found in great numbers in South Africa's Cape Province was the quagga. The quagga was distinguished from other zebras by having the usual zebra stripes on the front part of the body only.
Equus asinus African wild ass Equus burchellii Plains zebra, Burchell's zebra Equus caballus Przewalski's wild horse, domestic horse Equus grevyi Grevy's zebra Equus hemionus Asiatic wild ass, kulan Equus kiang Kiang, Tibetan wild ass Equus quagga ...
The Plains zebra (Equus quagga, formerly Equus burchelli) is the most common, and has or had about five subspecies distributed across much of southern and eastern Africa.
In 1811, naturalist William Burchell wrote these words describing herds of quagga (Equus quagga) roaming South African plains. In 1861, the last wild quagga was shot.
The QUAGGA is an extinct representative . The earliest type of horse, the hyracotherium or Eohippus , lived in some 45 to 50 million years ago, during the EOCENE EPOCH . The size varied from 10 to 20 in.
There are three other species of zebras: the mountain zebra, the plains zebra, and the extinct quagga. The species differ from each other in social structure and physical characteristics such as the shape of the ears and pattern of striping.
 See also: Zebra, Plains zebra, Rhinoceros, Rhino, Donkey
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