What kind of creature was the extinct quagga?
Quagga populations. Some subspecies and even species, such as "E. q. danielli" and "Hippotigris isabellinus", were only based on illustrations (iconotypes) of aberrant quagga specimens. Some authors have described the quagga as a kind of wild horse rather than a zebra, and one craniometric study from 1980 seemed to confirm its affiliation with the horse ("Equus caballus"). Early morphological studies have been pointed out to be erroneous; using skeletons from stuffed specimens can be problematical, as early taxidermists sometimes used donkey and horse skulls inside their mounts when the originals were unavailable. The quagga was the first extinct animal to have
Quagga Project Quagga Project The Quagga Project is an attempt by a group in South Africa to use selective breeding to achieve a breeding lineage of plains zebra ("Equus quagga") which optically resemble the extinct quagga ("Equus quagga quagga"). In 1955, Lutz Heck suggested in his book "" that careful selective breeding with the plains zebra could produce an animal resembling the extinct quagga: a zebra with reduced striping and a brownish basic colour. In 1971, Reinhold Rau visited various museums in Europe to examine the quagga specimens in their collections and decided to attempt to re-breed the quagga. Rau later contacted