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• Fourth, the "quagga"; and fifth, the undetermined species known as the "white zebra," so called from its pale yellow, or Isabella colour. Popular Adventure Tales
• Most of the species that remain - notably, all five living species of rhinoceros - are in danger of extinction; others, like the quagga, have already been driven to extinction.
• Tim Lampe demonstrates how to check trailer tires and the surrounding areas for invasive aquatic species, such as quagga and zebra mussels, which could come from using boats in other bodies of water. Nevada Appeal - Top Stories
• As summer rains began to fall, black wildebeest, perhaps a million of them, would trek south from winter pastures in the northeast, joined at times by springbok, blesbok and quagga.
• No; the big, solid-hoofed antelope that eats like nylghau or quagga. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
• The quagga and the blaubok became _extinct_ before the world learned that their existence was threatened! Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
• The quagga was a strikingly beautiful variant of the zebra.
• There used to be another called the ‘quagga’, but mankind hunted poor quagga down and the last of the species was killed in the 1880's so that someone could have a striped hide on their living room floor.
• A native of southern Africa, the quagga used to occur in vast herds in the Karoo regions of Cape Province and the southern part of Orange Free State.
• As an extinct animal, the quagga is well qualified to act as a tour guide for a paleontological museum.