The lost quagga and man

quagga

The Quagga is a subspecies of the plains zebra, they were indigenously found in the Highveld of the Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange Free State in South Africa. They are distinguished from zebras because of the differences of their hides; the common zebra had a black and white stripe pattern and the cages only had that pattern on the front part of the body, in the mid section the stripes faded and became wider until the rear became plain brown. They were known to move in great numbers and were totally wiped out in the late 19th century, thus they were added to the hall of man’s folly.