An animal that lived before 1883 is Quagga that was once found in huge numbers in South Africa Cape Province and in the southern part of the Orange Free State.
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Perissodactyla
- Family: Equidae
This animal belongs to the subspecies of the plain zebra, but it is has the vivid marks of zebra in the front part of the body only. The stripes are faded in the mid-section and the inter stripe space became wider and plain brown appears in the hindquarter and with withers is about 1.30 meters long.
In 1788 Quagga was classified in to an individual species and a great confusion revolved around the naturalists and explores since no two zebras were same. So because of the great confusion and the farmers hunting the quagga this species became extinct.
For meat and leather the Quagga were hunted by the South African farmers. The DNA study about the extinct animals was first started from Quagga.
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