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After the very close relationship between the quagga and extant plains zebras was discovered, Rau started the Quagga Project in 1987 in South Africa to create a quagga-like zebra population by selectively breeding for a reduced stripe pattern from plains zebra stock, with the eventual aim of introducing them to the quagga's former range.
Zebras have been popular subjects for abstract, modernist and surrealist artists. Such art includes Christopher Wood's Zebra and Parachute, Lucian Freud's The Painter's Room and Quince on a Blue Table and the various paintings of Mary Fedden and Sidney Nolan. Victor Vasarely depicted zebras as black and white lines and connected in a jigsaw ...
A close family relationship with hyraxes was suspected based on similarities in the construction of the ear and the course of the carotid artery. Molecular genetic studies, however, have shown the ungulates to be polyphyletic , meaning that in some cases the similarities are the result of convergent evolution rather than common ancestry .
Common (S. camelus) and Somali ostriches (S. molybdophanes) date uncertain Africa, Mesopotamia: meat, eggs, feathers, sacrifices 2f Palaeognathae: Scimitar-horned oryx (Oryx dammah) 2320–2150 BCE Egypt: meat, hides, horns, sacrifices Small captive population, but nearly extinct in the wild 1b Bovidae: Caracal (Caracal caracal) [62]
Ever wondered why zebras have stripes? Well, the researchers behind a new study think they have a pretty good answer to that question. WMAQ reports "California scientists say the animal's black ...
The Somali ostrich occurs in the Horn of Africa, having evolved isolated from the common ostrich by the geographic barrier of the East African Rift. In some areas, the common ostrich's Masai subspecies occurs alongside the Somali ostrich, but they are kept from interbreeding by behavioral and ecological differences. [15]
Get more zebras in the gallery below: Keep in mind, though, that where zebras live it has an affect on their stripes. Those in warmer climates have more stripes -- which is great for the ...
Theories suggested the stripes helped them camouflage, or served as identity name tags for zebras to recognize each other. But newer research suggests the stripes help them repel those pesky horse ...