Quagga/ Light-rumped plains zebra

Description:

- Quagga comes from the Khoi word to describe the barking noise made by the plains zebra. Genetically it is the same to the plains zebra but with a colour variation in the sense that it has no stripes on the rump and has a chestnut background. - The stripes start fading in toward the chest. Quagga are now extinct however a breeding program that started in 1987, is attempting to bring back this animal from extinction and reintroduce it into reserves in its former habitat. - DNA analysis has shown that the Quagga was not a separate species of zebra but in fact a subspecies of the Plains Zebra (Equus Quagga) The Quagga, formerly inhabited the Karoo and southern Free State of South Africa. - By selective breeding from a selected founder population of southern Plains Zebras an attempt is being made to retrieve at least the genes responsible for the Quagga’s characteristic striping pattern.

Notes:

For more info on the quagga breeding project visit: www.quaggaproject.org