Talk:Quagga/Archive 1

Trivia cites
I added the citing sources tag to parts of the "Trivia" section due to a question of notablility. While the info on the chess piece is interesting, it still needs to be cited. The part about "Team Quagga" and the MIT-Harvard Math Tournament is not only not notable, it probably violates WP:NOR. Therefore, unless a credible source is cited in accordance with WP:V, the paragraph should be deleted. --Yoberalf 18:32, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

I found the necessary citations and added them where appropriate. Codeblue87 20:22, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Species or subspecies - where is the reference?
There is no reference for the claim that an alleged Smithsonian study found that the Quagga was a subspecies. If it is a reference to: A rapid loss of stripes the evolutionary history of the extinct quagga, by Leonard et al(2005) (http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/3/291.full.pdf+html), then the study does NOT find that the quagga is a subspecies, but concludes that the evidence is insufficient to say either way, but that the Quagga did not share any unique alleles with the Burchell's zebra. Also, according to the ICZN a "subspecies" is a geographically isolated population which does not have any distinguishing features; it is hard to imagine that could ever apply to the quagga. 213.112.198.240 (talk) 22:56, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

Trivia
"Quagga" is also the code name for the software that runs the Free Software Foundation Free Software Directory, due to its phonetic awkwardness on par with GNU.

Hmm, this (inactive?) project doesn't seem to know whether to call themselves gnulist or quagga. A more relevant link might be to the Quagga Software Routing Suite project (which is a fork of the (inactive?) GNU routing software project). ralphb 213.173.180.166 07:44, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Modified article accordingly. ralphb 213.173.180.166 09:43, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

I don't think so..
I believe it is NOT extinct just yet. Take a look at this! http://media1.mweb.co.za/quaggaproject/
 * Oh yes, it is certainly extinct. That link is of the Quagga Project: http://www.quaggaproject.org. An attempt of some people to recreate the quagga by selective breeding. By selecting for reduced striping and the brown colour, etc. The quagga is an extinct subspecies, but it can be recreated (in appearance) from the remaining subspecies. I've had contact with Reinhold Rau (the project pioneer) before he died in February. The animals in the project are becoming to look more like the quagga, but they are still not the same in appearance. Henry is the most quagga-looking zebra at the moment. He has the reduced striping, but lacks the brownish colour of the original extinct quagga. Peter Maas 21:41, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

oooohhh..I see! Thanks for telling me! I thought it was real. thanks. --Mitt[[Wikipedia:Esperanza| e rnacht 90]]

Is it really extinct?
I know it may sound as a stupid question, but... is it really extinct? I recently got a glimpse of an article on a newspaper reporting several quaggas had been found still alive in a secluded region of Africa; can't find any link on the net though. Anyone can confirm this? Or is it some kind of hoax? Berserker79 14:30, 3 July 2006 (UTC) No question is stupid. Yes, it is really extinct and the info is probably a hoax. A find of living quaggas somewhere would be big world news, as this is one of the most famous recent extinctions along with the dodo etc. They are however zebras in the selective breeding program to recreate the quagga that start to look a bit liike quaggas. The other former extinct plains zebra, the Burchell's zebra, is now seen as the same subspecies as for example the zebras in Ethosha. So you could say, that they are rediscovered. There is much variety among the plain zebra, but the quagga is extinct. Peter Maas 20:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I was afraid that might have been a hoax... Thank you for clearing the issue. Berserker79 07:16, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Realigned the page
Very minor editing, but I didn't like the large blank spots on the page. Hopefully it looks a little better now. Carajou 02:38, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Planning to make comback for Quagga
Well it's probably not hard to believe but they're planning to bring back the quagga through cloning. Some DNA samples that were left over in some hair samples of dead quaggas from the few musuems that have some stuffed ones. My professor is really into these reintroduction programs of extinct animals so he told me about it of coarse they won't tell the public about this out loud. What do ya'll think?Mcelite (talk) 05:37, 12 December 2007 (UTC)mcelite
 * Sounds great if it's possible, certainly better than those Rau pseudo-Quaggas. FunkMonk (talk) 09:18, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

Maybe. 58.8.183.36 (talk) 08:32, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not sure it's quite right to say the cloning technology doesn't exist yet...I don't think it's the technology that's the problem, it's figuring out how to make sure the DNA is complete and right. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.1.218.118 (talk) 04:09, 6 November 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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Rediscovered
....is it the species or the photography? --77.88.93.100 (talk) 12:43, 14 October 2014 (UTC)