Editing Quagga (section)

===Extinction===

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The quagga had disappeared from much of its range by the 1850s. The last population in the wild, in the [[Orange Free State]], was [[extirpated]] in the late 1870s.<ref name="Walker"/> The last known wild quagga died in 1878.<ref name="Weddell"/> The specimen in London died in 1872 and the one in Berlin in 1875. The last captive quagga, a female in Amsterdam's [[Natura Artis Magistra]] zoo, lived there from 9&nbsp;May 1867 until it died on 12&nbsp;August 1883, but its origin and cause of death are unclear.<ref name="ungulates">{{Cite journal  | last =  Van Bruggen | first = A.C.  | title = Illustrated notes on some extinct South African ungulates | journal = South African Journal of Science  | volume = 55 | issue = 8 | year = 1959  | pages = 197–200 |  hdl=10520/AJA00382353_1382 |hdl-access=free | url = https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00382353_1382}}</ref> Its death was not recognised as signifying the extinction of its kind at the time, and the zoo requested another specimen; hunters believed it could still be found "closer to the interior" in the Cape Colony. Since locals used the term quagga to refer to all zebras, this may have led to the confusion. The extinction of the quagga was internationally accepted by the 1900 [[Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish in Africa]]. The last specimen was featured on a Dutch stamp in 1988.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=De Vos|first1=R.|title=Stripes faded, barking silenced: remembering quagga|journal=Animal Studies Journal|date=2014|volume=3|issue=1|url=http://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol3/iss1/4/|issn=2201-3008}}</ref> The specimen itself was mounted and is kept in the collection of [[Naturalis Biodiversity Center]] in [[Leiden]]. It has been on display for special occasions.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Naturalis Topstukken|url=http://topstukken.naturalis.nl/object/allerlaatste-quagga|access-date=8 April 2021|website=topstukken.naturalis.nl|language=nl}}</ref>

In 1889, the naturalist [[Henry Anderson Bryden|Henry Bryden]] wrote: "That an animal so beautiful, so capable of domestication and use, and to be found not long since in so great abundance, should have been allowed to be swept from the face of the earth, is surely a disgrace to our latter-day civilization."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Kloof and Karoo|last=Bryden|first=H.|publisher=Longmans, Green and Co|year=1889|asin=B00CNE0EZC|location=London|pages=393–403|url=https://archive.org/details/kloofkarroosport00brydiala/page/392/mode/2up?q=quagga}}</ref>