Quagga
Banding
After the Dutch settlement of South Africa began, the quagga was
heavily hunted as it competed with domesticated animals for forage.
While some individuals were taken to zoos in Europe, breeding
programs were unsuccessful. The last wild population lived in the
Orange Free State, and the quagga was extinct in the wild by 1878.
The last captive specimen died in Amsterdam on 12 August 1883.
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