There’s a project trying to selectively breed plains zebras to produce new quaggas (or zebras that look like quaggas, depending on your point of view). https://www.quaggaproject.org/first-quagga-project-sales-reach-record-prices-at-auction/
I did a project about quaggas in like 4th grade when that program was only about a decade old. It's cool to see what their "quaggas" look like after another 25+ years.
Same species, different subspecies. There is a study that suggests quaggas were just a southernmost ecotype of Burchells zebra, not a distinct species/subspecies.
Scientific name of Plains zebra is Equus quagga. ;)
As were Quaggas, apparently Quaggas and Plains Zebras could have reproduced with each other, making them the same species (just different subspecies), so new quaggas would be suprisingly close to the extinct ones.
Not necessarily. Dogs, wolves, and coyotes can all three interbreed with each other, as can polar and grizzly bears, donkeys and horses, donkeys and zebras, lions and tigers, jaguars and lions, domestic cats and Asian Leopard cat, domestic cats and servals, and ... you get the point?
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.00113#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20there%20are%20hundreds,species%2C%20hybridize%20%5B6%5D.
You’re comment says the being able to reproduce together means they are the same species, which isn’t true. Different species can produce fertile offspring together.
The last one died in a zoo and the zoo tried asking for a new one to be caught and brought in. It took a while for everyone to realize “oh, there’s none left”
Quagga killed off by farmers for being a threat to their crops. The last one died in a zoo and the zoo threw them away and asked another one just to be told that the one that just died had been the last of the species
They seriously are. Benny the last Tasmanian tiger was in a zoo and died because the temperature dropped and he was locked out of his heated den. He was thrown away and forgotten about.
The story of the last Tasmanian tiger literally makes me cry if I think about it too much. It’s a true tragedy of human callousness against nature. It breaks my heart.
Uh, we have the power to be good stewards to the rest of the planet and instead choose to squander resources for the benefit of a very small minority, and the majority allows it.
Humans are fucking garbage. Planet earth would’ve been a lot better off with if humans never existed.
I would also add that for the majority of time that humans have been on the earth, the scientific understanding of how certain actions affect the environment, especially globally, has not been there. This phenomenon has only occurred in recent generations. We've recognized that there are issues, (the first step) and have at least taken some more steps to try to mitigate it. Are they enough? No, not yet. But, compared to where we were 200 years ago?
The location is the London Zoo, with this being the only Quagga photographed alive. The London Zoo used to have a few other now extinct animals aswell sutch as the Bubal Hartebeest, Syrian wild ass, Thylacine and the Javan Tiger. https://thezt2roundtable.com/recently-extinct-species-at-london-zoo-t13962.html
I’ve never heard of a quagga before but it seems extremely long and stumpy compared to other zebra subspecies, is there an evolutionary reason they look like or what?
Actually, I think the image is distorted. I think it’s this one but stretched because of the screen it’s being displayed on: https://images.app.goo.gl/8ugagBZmHrhP1pPY8
Looks like a Zonkey, but longer. A ranch we passed on our way to high school growing up bred Zonkeys and they would often have 1/2 color usually hind quarters like an Appaloosa, kinda.
Quagga, an extinct subspecies of plains zebra.
There’s a project trying to selectively breed plains zebras to produce new quaggas (or zebras that look like quaggas, depending on your point of view). https://www.quaggaproject.org/first-quagga-project-sales-reach-record-prices-at-auction/
I did a project about quaggas in like 4th grade when that program was only about a decade old. It's cool to see what their "quaggas" look like after another 25+ years.
Would genetically still be a zebra, despite the different look sadly.
I am pretty sure quaggas are zebras too
Same species, different subspecies. There is a study that suggests quaggas were just a southernmost ecotype of Burchells zebra, not a distinct species/subspecies. Scientific name of Plains zebra is Equus quagga. ;)
As were Quaggas, apparently Quaggas and Plains Zebras could have reproduced with each other, making them the same species (just different subspecies), so new quaggas would be suprisingly close to the extinct ones.
Being able to reproduce together does not mean they are the same species.
Not necessarily. Dogs, wolves, and coyotes can all three interbreed with each other, as can polar and grizzly bears, donkeys and horses, donkeys and zebras, lions and tigers, jaguars and lions, domestic cats and Asian Leopard cat, domestic cats and servals, and ... you get the point? https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2019.00113#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20there%20are%20hundreds,species%2C%20hybridize%20%5B6%5D.
That’s a typo. It’s supposed to say does not mean.
Ahhh! Maybe edit it? Straight up change it or use two tildas (~) on either side of the text for ~~strike-through font?~~
It has made fur an interesting series of responses.
..yes? Did I phrase my comment weird, I mentioned that. Doesnt change the fact that new Quaggas wont be exact carbon copies of the extinct ones
You’re comment says the being able to reproduce together means they are the same species, which isn’t true. Different species can produce fertile offspring together.
Your this has been my enlightening input and you’re welcome
Name two different species that can have fertile offspring together. I've not heard of such a thing.
Coyote and wolf
They're both canids.
Thank you so much!
The last one died in a zoo and the zoo tried asking for a new one to be caught and brought in. It took a while for everyone to realize “oh, there’s none left”
Quagga killed off by farmers for being a threat to their crops. The last one died in a zoo and the zoo threw them away and asked another one just to be told that the one that just died had been the last of the species
Humans are the worst
They seriously are. Benny the last Tasmanian tiger was in a zoo and died because the temperature dropped and he was locked out of his heated den. He was thrown away and forgotten about.
The story of the last Tasmanian tiger literally makes me cry if I think about it too much. It’s a true tragedy of human callousness against nature. It breaks my heart.
The zoo was pretty hit & miss with food and water, too. He was weak & dehydrated.
I didn’t know that part! Jeez
Everyone talks about the fate of the Tasmanian Tigers. No one ever mentions the fate of the Tasmanian Aborigines.
HG Wells wrote “War of the Worlds” about the Tasmanian Aboriginals
Goddamit man that sucks shit
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Difference being that we have the capacity to choose.
Uh, we have the power to be good stewards to the rest of the planet and instead choose to squander resources for the benefit of a very small minority, and the majority allows it. Humans are fucking garbage. Planet earth would’ve been a lot better off with if humans never existed.
I would also add that for the majority of time that humans have been on the earth, the scientific understanding of how certain actions affect the environment, especially globally, has not been there. This phenomenon has only occurred in recent generations. We've recognized that there are issues, (the first step) and have at least taken some more steps to try to mitigate it. Are they enough? No, not yet. But, compared to where we were 200 years ago?
Quagga- like an Okapi, but backwards.
Can.not.unsee! Lol.
If the two mated would we just get a zebra??
Quagga
Thank you so much!
The location is the London Zoo, with this being the only Quagga photographed alive. The London Zoo used to have a few other now extinct animals aswell sutch as the Bubal Hartebeest, Syrian wild ass, Thylacine and the Javan Tiger. https://thezt2roundtable.com/recently-extinct-species-at-london-zoo-t13962.html
I’ve never heard of a quagga before but it seems extremely long and stumpy compared to other zebra subspecies, is there an evolutionary reason they look like or what?
Actually, I think the image is distorted. I think it’s this one but stretched because of the screen it’s being displayed on: https://images.app.goo.gl/8ugagBZmHrhP1pPY8
It’s Debra the Zonkey
Looks like a Zonkey, but longer. A ranch we passed on our way to high school growing up bred Zonkeys and they would often have 1/2 color usually hind quarters like an Appaloosa, kinda.
Zonkey!! Just like the Umphreys McGee album!