The quagga was a subspecies of the zebra. It went extinct 126 years ago today, when the last one died at a zoo in Amsterdam. This lovely lady quagga, at the London Zoo in 1870, was the only one ever photographed alive. Wikipedia says:
There are 23 known stuffed and mounted quagga throughout the world. A twenty-fourth specimen was destroyed in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad), during World War II.
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Uhh Ok… is the dodo still extinct? Any other extinct animals you’d like to research in wikipedia? Cool picture though.
wow its the thylacine of zebra!
Now that’s a horse of a different color!
I woke this morning with a really good feeling one might turn up, and this is how I find out? Bummer.
In more mind-blowing news… ok, not news, but everyone should know… Mr. Ed was actually a zebra.
So… if we processed a whole bunch of the surviving tissue with a gene sequencer, could we clone one of these fucking things?
Golob? You reading this?
Seriously, where are the guys who did Jurassic Park when you need them?
charles killed it.
but the okapi is still alive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi
A twenty-fourth specimen was destroyed in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad), during World War II.
Ok then, that tips the balance … war IS a bad thing!
Any word on Generalissimo Francisco Franco?
@9 — if you could only merge the two — you’d have one whole zebra!
I killed a lot of quagga playing rogue. Sorry.
What a great Scrabble word.
but it will live on forever in Scrabble!
shameless plug: Seattle Scrabble Club meets every Tuesday, starting at 6pm, at the University Friends Meeting, 4001 9th Ave NE.
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You can see a lot of quagga in tourist towns in Mexico. Sure, their stripes start to run when it rains…
Somebody’s gotta say it, so I will: You can do amazing things with Photoshop.
Cheer up. They’re bringing it back.
http://www.quaggaproject.org/
http://www.genomenewsnetwork.org/article…
So sad.
Er, “went extinct”? Technically (sniff) wiped out for getting in our way.