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The last Quagga in London Zoo, 1864

Short Quagga history at London Zoo: the Zoo purchased its first specimen in 1831, and after that, in a following decades exhibited three of them. The species became extinct in the wild while the third of these animals was still in the Zoo. This last one died in 1872.

In this picture You can see this last one of three to be seen in the Regent’s Park, photographed in 1864.

The last specimen of the species in the world died in Amsterdam Zoo on 12 August 1883.

Source( photo and partly description): Barrington-Johnson, J. 2005. The ZOO, The story of London Zoo
The next most natural-looking(colourwise) is probably the 'Rau' foal .

What specimen are you referring to as the 'Rau' foal, please?

I believe that both the quagga foal in Cape Town and the quagga foal in Mainz were remounted by the late Reinhold Rau.
 
The last Quagga in London Zoo

This bloke probaly also saw Thylacine, Pink-headed Duck, Passenger Pigeon, Sumatran & Javan Rhinos, maybe even Huia. But, he almost certainly never saw a healthy adult [non-human] great ape, and may have himself died young from something easily curable nowadays. And there was no Zoochat. Anyway, he's dead & I'm not, so glad I'm not him.
 
This bloke probaly also saw Thylacine, Pink-headed Duck, Passenger Pigeon, Sumatran & Javan Rhinos, maybe even Huia. But, he almost certainly never saw a healthy adult [non-human] great ape, and may have himself died young from something easily curable nowadays. And there was no Zoochat. Anyway, he's dead & I'm not, so glad I'm not him.

FBBird, your last point is unanswerable!!

It's interesting to think that in 1864 he wouldn't have seen snow leopards, California sealions, or either species of African rhino. And pigmy hippo and okapi were yet to be described to science.

He wouldn't have had problems getting to Camden Town tube station either...:)
 
This bloke probaly also saw Thylacine, Pink-headed Duck, Passenger Pigeon, Sumatran & Javan Rhinos..........

He probably saw a Falkland Island “wolf” at London Zoo too.....

And he could well have seen a beluga in the Royal Aquarium at Westminster a few years after this photo was taken......
 
And there was no Zoochat. Anyway, he's dead & I'm not, so glad I'm not him.

Very important point there.;) I think the answer would be to fly back in time just for a day(or two or three) to that era. You would certainly have a lot to post on Zoochat when you returned- though no-one would believe you of course.
 
Pertinax I believe you have seen the coloured poster that is from the Quagga project, have you seen the black and white poster "Quaggas in the world's museums"? this has 24 specimens on it?
 

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