S. Africa's quagga saga: righting a past wrong; A taxidermist in Cape Town is trying to bring back an animal hunted to extinction.(WORLD)

The Christian Science Monitor | October 1, 2003 | Copyright

Byline: Nicole Itano

The stuffed foal in the back of the South African Museum looks almost like a zebra. But not quite.

The coat is brown and the stripes are faded, as if it had been left in the sun too long. But this little guy hasn't been out for some time. That's because he's part of a species hunted to extinction more than a century ago.

Quaggas, a subspecies of the plains zebra, once filled the Karoo, the dry region north of Cape Town. The last quagga died in the Amsterdam Zoo on Aug. 12, 1883. Now Reinhold Rau, the retired head of the ...

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