Description

Burchell’s Zebra Quagga

Therina Groenewald: Burchell’s Zebra Quagga – professional photographer.

The Burchell’s Quagga is the closest relative to the extinct Quagga which roamed the southern plains of South Africa until the 19th century. Scientists are using DNA from chosen individual to attempt to bring the Quagga back.

Each individual Zebra has unique markings and act in similar fashion as fingerprints in humans. It is said that newborn Zebra stay close to the mother to imprint her patterns. The southern Burchell’s Zebra has a distinctive shadow brown stripe in the white stripe, a characteristic which diminishes the further north they occur.