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Quagmire politics: did they revive an extinct animal or did they breed a zebra with fewer stripes?

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Quagmire politics: did they revive an extinct animal or did they breed a zebra with fewer stripes?

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EThe scientist of science happily praises that he can Revival of extinct quagas In the Etosha National Park in Namibia, thanks to the so-called The quaga project, which began in 1987.

The last quagga died in the Amsterdam Zoo in 1883.

The quagga or quagga (Equus quagga quagga) is an extinct subspecies of zebra (Equus quagga), the only extinct animal whose DNA has been completely extracted, sequenced and studied.

Controversy with the supposed ‘resurrection’ of quagas

But there are critical currents with the so-called’ Resurrection ‘of quagas, which have become referred to as the relative’ Jurassic Park ‘ team.

In fact, they just make the zebra have fewer stripes… It is a selective rekra

Douglas Macaulay

“In fact, they make a zebra that has fewer stripes… It’s a selective approach,” Douglas McCauley, an expert on evolution at the University of California at Santa Barbara, reported in the Wall Street Journal.

The original quagas ran in a similar way to zebras, but their fur was more brown and they had only stripes on the front half of their body and head.

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