#quagga

[haunthid]

a ghost of the past

[endlingmusings]

This otherwise unassuming taxidermied foal, displayed at the Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, represents the only known preserved quagga hybrid. The foal, born in the early 1800s at Owston Hall in Doncaster, was the result of a coupling between a donkey stallion and a quagga mare. [ x ]

[eeios]

First Dinoël posting ! Those are illustrations i made for my first creator's market, centered around dinos and popular science ...

The Thylacine, or tasmanian tiger, was an extinct marsupial from Australia.

The Quagga was a species of zebra from South Africa.

Edit: I updated the Thylacine art, because the inspiration i chose for the frame was an uneducated choice, enjoy this updated version !

[styofa]

extinct

[horsefigureoftheday]

Horse figure of the day: Windstone Editions Hippogrif Colt 842-GB

[beardless-bearded-vulture]

My favorite part of the exhibit: the very last quagga! The mare died on the 12th of august in 1883 in the zoo in Amsterdam, without anyone realising she was an endling. There are only 23 taxidermy specimens of quaggas, and a lot of them aren't on display due to their fragility

This is one of the two taxidermy quaggas in the collection of Naturalis, and has recently been restored

Link to a short video on the instagram page of Naturalis about the restoration, where you can see some of the damage that had to be restored

[unita-n]

My old piece with quaggas.

watercolour on wallpaper back

[meisterdrucke]

The Quahkah, from 'African Scenery and Animals' by Samuel Daniell (1804, color lithography)