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Article: How crossing zebras will resurrect a true quagga.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- August 14, 1998
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Cresting a rise on the bumpy game park road, the Land Rover momentarily startles a herd of seven odd-looking zebras.
"There they are! Wonderful, wonderful," exclaimed park ranger Theresa Huber, cutting the engine so as not to scare off the skittish creatures munching on grass and leaves in the semi-desert Karoo National Park.
The strange zebras, with only faint stripes on the hind quarters and a brownish tinge, have not been seen in this vast, arid region in the middle of South Africa for more than 100 ...