Sunday, August 12, 2007
This Day in the History of Large Animal Extinctions
On this day in 1883, the quagga, a zebra species, went extinct when the last mare died in an Amsterdam Zoo. The quagga had been numerous in South Africa but had been hunted to extinction by Boer and English farmers who did not appreciate the competition for grazing, et al. Recent efforts to resurrect the distinctive coloration by selective breeding have yielded some results.
Labels: Species extinctions
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:15 AM 
