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The life, extinction, and rebreeding of quagga zebras = significance for conservation /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The life, extinction, and rebreeding of quagga zebras/ Peter Heywood, Brown University.
Reminder of title:	significance for conservation /
Author:	Heywood, Peter.
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :Cambridge University Press, : 2022.,
Description:	xi, 230 p. :ill., maps, digital ;23 cm.
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).
Subject:	Quagga - Africa, Southern. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108917735
ISBN:	9781108917735

The life, extinction, and rebreeding of quagga zebras = significance for conservation /
Heywood, Peter.

The life, extinction, and rebreeding of quagga zebrassignificance for conservation /[electronic resource] :Peter Heywood, Brown University. - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :Cambridge University Press,2022. - xi, 230 p. :ill., maps, digital ;23 cm. - Ecology, biodiversity and conservation. - Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Quaggas were beautiful pony-sized zebras in southern Africa that had fewer stripes on their bodies and legs, and a browner body coloration than other zebras. Indigenous people hunted quaggas, portrayed them in rock art, and told stories about them. Settlers used quaggas to pull wagons and to protect livestock against predators. Taken to Europe, they were admired, exhibited, harnessed to carriages, illustrated by famous artists and written about by scientists. Excessive hunting led to quaggas' extinction in the 1880s but DNA from museum specimens showed rebreeding was feasible and now zebras resembling quaggas live in their former habitats. This rebreeding is compared with other de-extinction and rewilding ventures and its appropriateness discussed against the backdrop of conservation challenges-including those facing other zebras. In an Anthropocene of species extinction, climate change and habitat loss which organisms and habitats should be saved, and should attempts be made to restore extinct species?

ISBN: 9781108917735Subjects--Topical Terms:

3645704
Quagga
--Africa, Southern.

LC Class. No.: QL737.U62 / H49 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 599.6657168

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