quagga

• It's a pleasure to have the chance to bring a few of them to your attention today Copyright © 2007 Sheila Williams Back to Table of Contents REFLECTIONS: RESURRECTING THE QUAGGA by Robert Silverberg Once upon a time in South Africa there existed a zebra-like animal called the quagga, which has been extinct since the late nineteenth century. —  Asimov'sSF,June2007
• That does not make him a real quagga, but, all the same, he is as close to a quagga in appearance as anything the world has seen since Amsterdam's captive female died a century and a quarter ago Most likely Reinhold Rau would not have been able to carry his quagga-revival project much beyond the point he had attained at the time of his death. —  Asimov'sSF,June2007
• The quagga, though so plainly barred like a zebra over the body, is without bars on the legs; but Dr. Gray has figured one specimen with very distinct zebra-like bars on the hocks With respect to the horse, I have collected cases in England of the spinal stripe in horses of the most distinct breeds, and of all colours; transverse bars on the legs are not rare in duns, mouse-duns, and in one instance in a chestnut: a faint shoulder-stripe may sometimes be seen in duns, and I have seen a trace in a {164} bay horse. —  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)
• In Lord Morton's famous hybrid from a chestnut mare and male quagga, the hybrid, and even the pure offspring subsequently produced from the mare by a black Arabian sire, were much more plainly barred across the legs than is even the pure quagga. —  On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)
• The quagga and striped quagga, as you may see, have the ears of a horse, while the zebra has those of the ass. —  The Mission; or Scenes in Africa

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