Quagga  (Equus quagga quagga)

Description

The quagga roamed the plains of South Africa until the late 19th Century when it became extinct. Once considered a separate species (1), the quagga is now generally accepted as a subspecies of the plain’s zebra (3) (4). However, with their dark stripes on the head and neck merging into brown coloured hindquarters (2) and pale legs devoid of stripes (5), quaggas did look quite distinctive compared to the zebras that we recognise today (2). As with other zebra species, the patterns of the stripes were unique to each individual (2).

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