Abstract

Quaggas had a striking appearance: the face, neck, and anterior part of their bodies had white stripes like zebras, but unlike other zebras, their legs were not striped. The remainder of the quagga and the background color in the areas with white stripes was a brownish color, sometimes described as light brown, reddish-brown, or yellowish-brown (Figure 1). In 1758, Linnaeus created the genus Equus to include horses, donkeys, and zebras, and he gave the binomial name E. zebra to the Cape mountain zebra. This was one of three zebras occurring in South Africa, the others being the plains zebra or Burchell’s zebra, E. burchelli, and the quagga, E. quagga. The species name, quagga, was the common name for ..