The zebra sub-species without stripes – known as the quagga – has been extinct since the 1880s. A South African project says it is on the verge of resurrecting it. But is this approach to species conservation really useful?
Two Rau quaggas on a field in South Africa. The quagga, a kind of stripeless zebra, has been extinct since the 1880s. After decades of research, the Quagga Project is on the verge of resurrecting the zebra sub-species through cross-breeding of zebras with matching gene pools. The result is the Rau q.