#plains zebra

[snototter]

A plains zebra (Equus quagga) displaying leucism - a color morph that occurs naturally due to reduced melanin production in the body.

by Helene Hoffman

[animalphotorefs]

Photo of the Day: feral plains zebra on Big Sur

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[fyanimaldiversity]

Abundistic plains zebra (Equus quagga)

@ FRANK LIU

[vintagewildlife]

Taxidermy Selous' zebra By: Chicago Natural History Museum From: The Empire of Equus 1974

[chaoticmooncollectives]

Let's mirror mama

[okapiaconcolor]

Plains zebra, Nairobi National Park por flowcomm

[raw-wild]

Rüppell’s Griffon with Plains Zebra carcass | David Bygott

[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.