South Africa revives 'extinct' zebra subspecies

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The animals roaming over a wide plain encased by jagged mountain ranges look like quaggas, a subspecies of the plains zebra—but quaggas are extinct.
They were wiped out by colonial hunters in the 19th century.
Now, a small group of scientists and conservationists believe they have recreated the quagga, which is distinct from other zebra mainly through the lack of the characteristic black and white stripes on its hindquarters.
Over a period of 30 years the Quagga Project has used selective breeding of plains zebra to produce, in the fifth generation, an animal they say is indistinguishable from those that roamed the same plains centuries ago.


Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2016-02-south-africa-revives-extinct-zebra.html#jCp

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1. A case of "ask and ye shall receive" ? ;)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112796615

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2. absolutely