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2016年2月12日—SouthAfricahasbeenrunning“TheQuaggaProject”tosavethealmostextinctzebrabreedsince1987inanattemptbyagroupofdedicated ...

The myth of extinction to the long-lost cousin of the Zebra has been put aside after the rediscovery of the Africa quagga in South Africa.

On 12 August 1883 the last living quagga died at the Amsterdam zoo, and the world believed this unusual type of zebra had gone the way of the dodo.

But for the last 20 years a team of South Africans have been working to bring the beast back from the dead, with the third generation of specially bred foals now being born.

South Africa has been running “The Quagga Project” to save the almost extinct zebra breed since 1987 in an attempt by a group of dedicated people in the country to bring back an animal from extinction and reintroduce it into reserves in its former habitat.

“It is an attempt to try and repair an ecological damage that was done a long ti...