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A Quagmire Indeed

Britannica

This is a picture of a Quagga, an extinct kind of zebra, in 1870. The London Zoo had purchased its first specimen and exhibited three of them until the last one died in 1872. The last specimen of the quagga in the world died in Amsterdam Zoo in August 1883. The quagga pictured was a female purchased from the animal dealer Jamrach – it lived at London Zoo for more than twenty-one years, which is the longevity record for a zoo quagga. The mounted skin of the specimen is at the Royal Scottish Museum in Edinburgh.