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English: Quagga (Equus quagga quagga) is an extinct sub-species of zebra. Mare, London, Regent's Park ZOO. original image by 'F. York, & Son' Digitally enhanced and coloured by Welsh artist; Rhŷn Williams
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Grévy's zebra populations are estimated at less than 2,000 mature individuals, but they are stable. Mountain zebras number near 35,000 individuals and their population appears to be increasing. Plains zebra are estimated to number 150,000–250,000 with a decreasing population trend. Human intervention has fragmented zebra ranges and populations.
Grévy's zebra (Equus grevyi), also known as the imperial zebra, is the largest living wild equid and the most threatened of the three species of zebra, the other two being the plains zebra and the mountain zebra. Named after French president Jules Grévy, it is found in parts of Kenya and Ethiopia.
They are shorter than in the mountain zebra and narrower than in Grévy's zebra. As with all wild equids, the plains zebra has an erect mane along the neck and a tuft of hair at the end of the tail. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The body hair of a zebra is 9.4 ± 4 mm (0.37 ± 0.16 in), [ 17 ] shorter than in other African ungulates.
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Little is known about the behaviour of quaggas in the wild, and it is sometimes unclear what exact species of zebra is referred to in old reports. [11] The only source that unequivocally describes the quagga in the Free State is that of the British military engineer and hunter William Cornwallis Harris. [8] His 1840 account reads as follows: