ALIEN ZOO

NEWS FROM THE CRYPTOZOOLOGICAL GARDEN

KARL SHUKER peers through his stereoscopic glasses to find a new quagga photo (or two) A QUAGGA ON EBAY! Until very recently, only five photographs were known to exist depicting a living specimen of South Africa’s famously partially-striped plains zebra subspecies known as the quagga, which became extinct in 1883 due to over-hunting. In late April 2024, however, news that some additional photos of a live quagga had been rediscovered was published by Branden Holmes on his Recently Extinct Plants and Animals Database website. Moreover, unlike all of the previous five photos, these were not of the same quagga mare at London Zoo from 1851 to 1872. Instead, they were of a specimen living at the South African farm of Andrew Hudson Bain, ‘Quaggafontein’, which had been snapped on 8…

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