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Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, England

Catalogue number : A758

Locality: Bontebok Flats, British Kaffraria, South Africa (between present Cathcart and Queenstown)

Date of acquisition: after 1869

Measurements: (hoof only)

anterior height 6,0 cm
width 6,7 cm
length 8,4 cm
References: Howes and Bamber (1970)


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The Quagga Project

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The Quagga Project
Prof. Peter Heywood of Brown University, recently published a well-researched and in-depth book on the Quagga. He is pictured here with the Studbook Manger, Bernard Wooding, (on the left) and the Project Co Ordinator, March Turnbull, (on the right) during a field trip to Elandsberg. The book published by Cambridge University Press in 2022 is titled: The Life, Extinction and Rebreeding of Quagga Zebra. Significance for Conservation.
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