Project Quagga (re-breading extinct species)
The Quagga was a strage species of horse, once common in southan Africa that looked a bit like a Barnumesque cut and shut between a horse and a Zebra. The frount half was striped like a zebra and the back half usuly had brownish coulouring and no stripes, the physical features looked superfically like a Zebra.
The quagga became extinct when the last known quaggar died at an Amsterdam zoo in 1883, the quagga in the wild had become extinct due to over hunting and persecution (it was seen as competition for the sheep) some time previously.
It was discovered through genetic analysis that the quagga was a subspecies of the plains zebra, from this study the quagga project was born.
The aims of the project as stated on the offical website, are:
overveiw poster
Quagga project offical site
The Quagga project is basicly trying to breed a species at least cosmtcly simmilar to the extinct quagga from plins zebra, the question is though, if it dose sucseed in this aim have they really broght the quagga back?
The Quagga was a strage species of horse, once common in southan Africa that looked a bit like a Barnumesque cut and shut between a horse and a Zebra. The frount half was striped like a zebra and the back half usuly had brownish coulouring and no stripes, the physical features looked superfically like a Zebra.
The quagga became extinct when the last known quaggar died at an Amsterdam zoo in 1883, the quagga in the wild had become extinct due to over hunting and persecution (it was seen as competition for the sheep) some time previously.
It was discovered through genetic analysis that the quagga was a subspecies of the plains zebra, from this study the quagga project was born.
The aims of the project as stated on the offical website, are:
The Quagga project attempts to breed through selection a population of plains zebras, which in its external appearance, and possibly genetically as well, will be closer, if not identical to the former population known as 'Quagga', which was exterminated during the second half of the last century.
overveiw poster
Quagga project offical site
The Quagga project is basicly trying to breed a species at least cosmtcly simmilar to the extinct quagga from plins zebra, the question is though, if it dose sucseed in this aim have they really broght the quagga back?