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The
Quagga
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| Darwin visited each exposition of rabbits, poultry, pigeons, etc which he could find and he posed all kind of questions, often also by mail. | In this way he learned that some horses, especially younger ones, show
stripes. This is an indication for relationship with zebra's for example
or with this extinct Quagga from South Africa, which possessed stripes only
on the front part of its body. The Quagga on the photo is the stuffed specimen
in the Museum Naturalis in Leiden (NL) which died in 1883 in Amsterdam as
the last member of its species.
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