1 The quagga was a strikingly beautiful variant of the zebra.

2 The last captive Quagga, a mare, died on 12 August 1883 in Amsterdam Zoo, where she had lived since 9 May 1867.

3 The Quagga was a southern subspecies of the Plains Zebra.

4 Because of the confusion caused by the indiscriminate use of the term "Quagga" for any zebra, the true Quagga was hunted to extinction without this being realized until many years later.

5 While plains zebras are much more plentiful, one subspecies, the quagga, went extinct in the late 19th century.