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The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras - Significance for Conservation (Hardcover)
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The Life, Extinction, and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebras - Significance for Conservation (Hardcover)
Series: Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation
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Quaggas were beautiful pony-sized zebras in southern Africa that
had fewer stripes on their bodies and legs, and a browner body
coloration than other zebras. Indigenous people hunted quaggas,
portrayed them in rock art, and told stories about them. Settlers
used quaggas to pull wagons and to protect livestock against
predators. Taken to Europe, they were admired, exhibited, harnessed
to carriages, illustrated by famous artists and written about by
scientists. Excessive hunting led to quaggas' extinction in the
1880s but DNA from museum specimens showed rebreeding was feasible
and now zebras resembling quaggas live in their former habitats.
This rebreeding is compared with other de-extinction and rewilding
ventures and its appropriateness discussed against the backdrop of
conservation challenges-including those facing other zebras. In an
Anthropocene of species extinction, climate change and habitat loss
which organisms and habitats should be saved, and should attempts
be made to restore extinct species?
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