Fun Zebra Pictures & Facts Page 5

An extinct Quagga (zebra).

Image Sources: Illustration from the "Illustrated Natural History of the Animal Kingdom, Being a Systematic and Popular Description of the Habits, Structure, and Classification of Animals, from the Highest to the Lowest Forms, with Their Relations to Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, and the Arts," by S. G. Goodrich, Vol. I, 1859. Colored by Fun Zebra Pictures & Facts; African background taken by Gary M. Stolz, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Fact: Now extinct, the Quagga has vanished from its native South African habitat since 1861. Their distinctive zebra stripes were a sharp brown alternated with off-white, but on the head and neck only. With a white belly and legs and brown flanks, these "wild asses," as called by the Boer farmers, were hunted for food until extinct. Source: Young Peoples Trust for the Environment

The side view of a male Grevy's zebra.
Image Source: Darren New.

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Fact: Grevy's Zebra, known in the Roman circus as the "hippotigris" (horse-tiger or "tiger horse") was named for Jules Grevy, the president of France (1879-87), who did not discover this species of zebra, but received the first specimens known to the scientific world. Source: Young Peoples Trust for the Environment