Extinct since late 19th century

Usage examples of quagga.

In connection with the horses it is worthy of notice that the quagga zebra, which never comes together with the dauw zebra, nevertheless lives on excellent terms, not only with ostriches, which are very good sentries, but also with gazelles, several species of antelopes, and gnus.

We thus have a case of mutual dislike between the quagga and the dauw which cannot be explained by competition for food.

Majuba was the rude hut, hidden in the foothills, that was used by the shepherds who took the Courtney flocks up to the high pastures in the summer, and by the men of the Courtney family when they went out to hunt the quagga, the eland and the blue buck It was deserted at this season of the year.

Within the borders of the colony at any time of day one could hear the boom of their long roers, and in the season of the great animal migrations across the plains they had organized themselves into large mounted parties to hunt the wild horses, the quagga, for their hides, the spring buck and eland for their meat.

But in the 1980s, somebody used the latest DNA-extraction techniques on a piece of quagga hide, and recovered a lot of DNA.

So much DNA that people began to talk about bringing the quagga back to life.

And if you could bring the quagga back to life, why not other extinct animals?

The fact that the quagga lives together with ruminants feeding on the same grass as itself excludes that hypothesis, and we must look for some incompatibility of character, as in the case of the hare and the rabbit.

Their close relatives, the quagga, short and sturdier, assembled in lesser herds, a darker bay colour than the grey zebra.

He tugged a quagga hide from a nearby brassbound chest and dug out a square glass bottle.

Sudden light flooded down from above them, bursting through the gratings, painting quagga stripes of illumination.

A herd of quagga are drinking there, and five fat eland are coming down the path to the water.

For myself, I venture confidently to look back thousands on thousands of generations, and I see an animal striped like a zebra, but perhaps otherwise very differently constructed, the common parent of our domestic horse, whether or not it be descended from one or more wild stocks, of the ass, the hemionus, quagga, and zebra.

The quagga wheeled and galloped, delight and sun flashing off his flanks.

Squadrons of quagga galloped away in ranks, barking like packs of hounds.