What is Quagga?
{{subspeciesbox | name = ''Equus quagga quagga'' | status = EX | extinct = 1883 | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = <ref>{{IUCN2008|assessor=Hack, M. A.|assessor2=East, R.|assessor3=Rubenstein, D. I. |year=2008 |id=7957 |title=Equus quagga quagga |downloaded=5 January 2008}}</ref> | image = Quagga_photo.jpg | image_caption = Quagga [[mare]] at [[London Zoo]], 1870, the only specimen photographed alive | genus = Equus | species = quagga | species_link = Plains zebra | subspecies = quagga | authority = ([[Pieter Boddaert|Boddaert]], 1785) | range_map= Quagga range.png | range_map_caption= Former range in red | synonyms ={{collapsible list|bullets = true|title=<small>List</small> |''Hippotigris quagga'' <small>Hamilton Smith, 1841</small> |''Hippotigris isabellinus'' <small>Hamilton Smith, 1841</small> |''E. q. isabellinus'' <small>Hamilton Smith, 1841</small> |''E. q. lorenzi'' <small>Lydekker, 1902</small> |''E. q. greyi'' <small>Lydekker, 1904</small> |''E. q. danielli'' <small>Pocock, 1904</small> |''E. q. trouessarti'' <small>Camerano, 1908</small> |''E.'' (''Quagga'') ''quagga quagga'' <small>Shortridge, 1934</small> }} }} The '''Quagga''' (''Equus quagga quagga''), also '''Cape Quagga''', is a recently [[extinct]] [[zebra]].<ref name=rea>{{cite web |url=http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/quagga.htm |title=Recently Extinct Animals - Species Info - Quagga |work=petermaas.nl |year=18 December 2008 |access-date=20 August 2011 |archive-date=21 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821145558/http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/quagga.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was one of the six [[subspecies]] of plains zebra. It was a yellowish-brown zebra with stripes only on its head, neck and forebody, and looks similar to an Okapi.<ref name=rea/> The Quagga was native to dry grassy plains in the south of the African continent.<ref name=rea/> It was found as far north as the [[Orange River]]. It is believed to have separated from other plains zebras between 120,000 and 290,000 y