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dc.contributor.authorDe Vos, Rick
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:55:33Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:55:33Z
dc.date.created2015-05-13T20:00:36Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.citationDe Vos, R. 2014. Stripes Faded, Barking Silenced: Remembering Quagga. Animal Studies Journal. 3 (1): pp. 29-45.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36406
dc.description.abstract

The death of the last quagga on August 12, 1889 represented the loss of a long-term resident of the Artis Magistra Zoo in Amsterdam, at the time a private institution accessible only to members. The mare’s death was not recognised at the time as signifying the extinction of the quagga, largely due to the vague and general usage of the term ‘quagga’. The delay in understanding the significance of this death, and the way in which quaggas rapidly disappeared in the wild in southern Africa in the nineteenth century, have been overshadowed in scientific and historical accounts by debates concerning the classification of the quagga and its re-creation by elective breeding from plains zebra stock. This paper examines quaggas in terms of their relationships with each other and with other animals on the southern African plains, considering how they have been remembered in different contexts and reflecting on what has been lost in the light of attempts to erase and redeem their extinction.

dc.publisherResearch Online - University of Wollongong
dc.relation.urihttp://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol3/iss1/4
dc.subjectaccretion
dc.subjectExtinction
dc.subjectquagga
dc.titleStripes Faded, Barking Silenced: Remembering Quagga
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume3
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage29
dcterms.source.endPage45
dcterms.source.issn2201-3008
dcterms.source.titleAnimal Studies Journal
curtin.departmentSchool of Media, Culture and Creative Arts
curtin.accessStatusOpen access


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