but it is a South African family member of the zebra. And no, you have never seen it before. It was hunted to extinction after the European settlement of South Africa the same food as domesticated animals. , because it ate  Some were taken to zoos in Europe, but breeding programmes were unsuccessful.
The last quagga died next door, here in Artis, on the 12th of August 1883. At first, people didn’t realise this was not only one animal that was no more, that had ceased to be, that had kicked the bucket. That this quagga was not only as dead as Monty Python’s parrot, but that it was the last of a species  a species.