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Post by Melanie on Apr 4, 2007 0:23:44 GMT
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Post by dantheman9758 on Apr 4, 2007 0:34:54 GMT
Look at how horrible zoo conditions were back than. That must have been one sad and lonely "last" Quagga. They should have at least put that animal with some other zebras to fulfill its "herd" instinct, and look at how small that cage is, that quagga can't even open up a small trot in that thing..... and the ground is made of brick, and the walls are made of iron --- I'm so displeased that Quagga's disapeared in such a dishonorable fashion. err.... I hate extinctions
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Post by Melanie on Apr 4, 2007 0:41:12 GMT
Yes, i agree. But it were not only the buildings and the conditions in the zoos, it were the zoo politics in particular. That means: The more exotic and rare an animal was, the better for the zoo. London had such a politics and so it came that London kept species which were never seen in an European zoo before and after (e.g. The Passenger Pigeon).
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Post by another specialist on Apr 4, 2007 7:52:28 GMT
There are only 5 photographs of the living London Quagga. Above you can see 3. Thanks for info and images Melanie |
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Post by Melanie on Apr 4, 2007 14:28:30 GMT
  Source:London Zoo from Old Photographs |
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Post by sebbe67 on Apr 4, 2007 19:24:21 GMT
Look at how horrible zoo conditions were back than. That must have been one sad and lonely "last" Quagga. They should have at least put that animal with some other zebras to fulfill its "herd" instinct, and look at how small that cage is, that quagga can't even open up a small trot in that thing..... and the ground is made of brick, and the walls are made of iron --- I'm so displeased that Quagga's disapeared in such a dishonorable fashion. err.... I hate extinctions Problem is that many zoos has looked quite the same for the past 30-40 years, especially in undevelopt countries its not unusal that you keep leopards or lions in small iron cages with concrete floor and some hole or something in the back wall where they can sleep. Even many zoo inclosers in Europa and USA often leaves much to wish for, I would say that many animals still dont have enough stimulating inclosers. I recently visited the Rome zoo in Italy, in their "African plains" part there was hardly any animals at all, one lonely female eland (which is a heard animal) and a few Egyptian ducks. |
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Post by another specialist on Apr 5, 2007 15:26:08 GMT
I personally feel sorry for this animals past and present being stuck in small enclosures in zoos when they could be in nice large enclosure like in a safari park or better still protected in their own wilderness were they should be.
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Post by Melanie on Sept 10, 2007 20:52:03 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jan 28, 2008 18:20:21 GMT
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Post by Bhagatí on Feb 25, 2008 12:33:48 GMT
from: www.vtm.cz:80/Modules/VTM/ActualCopyStories.aspx?index=0Translate to english language: Return of lost quaggafebruary 2008 Zebras with knows for the strips. Quagga was is different - this species had striped only head and neck. When year 1883 dead a lost exemplar it's believe that is unique animal is definitely lost. This is info very poorly. More facts about this actually status of quaggas is only in begining. I'm writte if will more knows about this new facts. I will searched from this czech link. Maybe, that it will later on english link too.   |
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Post by another specialist on Mar 17, 2008 17:13:05 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Mar 17, 2008 17:17:56 GMT
 The quagga was born some 200,000 years ago when a group of plains zebras wandered into the Great Karroo, a dried-out inland sea in southern Africa. Separated from all other zebras, this group evolved differently and eventually became a unique animal. Humans soon took note of the quagga, for example in cave drawings. This is a rubbing of one that dates from between A.D. 200 and 800 McGregor Museum, Kimberley, South Africa. www.slate.com/id/2132747/ |
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Post by another specialist on Mar 17, 2008 17:19:38 GMT
 Quagga lived among the Khoikhoi and other African tribes in relative peace for as long as anyone can tell. According to one scholar, the quagga "was very easily tamed [and] by nature watchful, and hence acted as a guard to the herds among which it lived." European colonists, however, shot quagga en masse—for sport, for leather, to clear areas for sheep and goat farming, and to feed servants. Preservationists began warning of extinction in the late 1800s; little did they know the quagga was already gone. The last one died in 1883 in an Amsterdam, Netherlands, zoo. www.slate.com/id/2132747/ |
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Post by another specialist on Mar 17, 2008 17:26:55 GMT
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Post by another specialist on May 27, 2008 8:35:03 GMT
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Post by another specialist on May 27, 2008 20:45:20 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Jul 13, 2008 20:16:03 GMT
SPECIES Equus quagga Author: Boddaert, 1785. Citation: Elench. Anim.: 160. Common Name: Quagga Type Locality: "Caffrorum regione"; locality of paralectotype now identified as South Africa, Northern Cape Prov., Colesburg Dist., Seekoei River (Grubb, 1999). Distribution: Formerly South Africa, south of the Orange-Vaal Rivers. Status: IUCN – Extinct. Comments: See comments under burchellii. Last specimen, a captive, died in 1872. www.bucknell.edu/msw3/browse.asp?s=y&id=14100032 |
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Post by another specialist on Jul 30, 2008 14:31:30 GMT
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Post by another specialist on Apr 30, 2009 21:27:26 GMT
My own photos taken in the Natural History Museum at Tring - April 30 2009  Quagga specimen (with zebra-horse hybrid foal in same case)   |
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Post by another specialist on Jun 21, 2009 19:12:17 GMT
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