#extinct extinction

[demon-from-your-dreams]

The third piece in my series of recently extinct animals, this time depicting the Quagga.

Despite appearing closer to a Zebra hybrid, Quagga are instead an extinct subspecies of the still extant (not extinct) Plains Zebra. The subspecies was once found roaming southern Africa in large herds, but due to colonization, their herds soon dwindled till the last captive Quagga passed on the during August 1883 at Amsterdam Zoo with no one realizing she may have been the last of her kind.

There is a project called, The Quagga Project, that began in 1987 that breeds southern plains zebras to resemble physically, and possibly genetically, the extinct Quagga subspecies in order to re-introduce them into areas the Quagga once roamed.