From Eric Beheim #1

Quagga-1, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Here is some more information I turned up on Quaggas: There was a live specimen in England by 1751. Several quaggas were part of the Royal Menagerie and were kept at Windsor Castle. Quaggas were also kept on private English estates. The London Zoo is said to have used a quagga to haul wagonloads of forage from Covent Garden Market to the zoo grounds. Quaggas were also employed in harness at Cape Colony in Africa and on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Hunted ruthlessly for food and hides, the quagga ceased to exist in the wild sometime around 1870. It is believe that a final shipment of captive animals was made to Antwerp in 1870. The last surviving quagga was an old mare that died in 1883 in Amsterdam. Several photographs (circa 1868-1869) exist of a mare that was kept in the London Zoo. In 1984, scientists from UC Berkeley succeeded in isolating and reproducing fragments of quagga DNA from a 140-year-old quagga skin in a museum in Mainz, West Germany.