Why South African scientists are breeding zebras without stripes


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Two Rau quaggas on a field in South Africa. Photo: Quagga Project/dpa

South African scientists are working to resurrect the quagga, a sub-species of zebra that was hunted into extinction by colonialists.

Quaggas look like a cross between a horse and a zebra but they don’t have any stripes.

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