Some of South Africa

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Some of South Africas endangered and extinct
species

• By VG grade 10 History class

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The Endangered and Extinct
Cape Mountain Zebra
Mountain Lion
Knysna Sea Horse
The Cape Warthog
The Ceolasanth
Quagga
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Cape Mountain Lion
HISTORY.. John Spence searched for origins of the
cape lions about thirty years ago.The Cape lion
were thought to be extint during the regions of
the 1850s. His search ended a year ago when he
received pictures of a magnificent black-maned
lion at the Novosibrisk Zoo in Central
Siberia.As a young man, Spence had read about
such lions roaming the slopes of Table Mountain
and Signal Hill in what is now the modern city of
Cape Town. His imagination was fired by stories
of massive lions attempting to scale the walls of
the 17th-century Dutch castle that was built by
Commander Jan van Riebeeck, the chis powerful
predator roams the Americas, where it is also
known as a puma, cougar, and catamount.They prey
on dears and hunt at night.   WHERE? They were
found in the cape province also in the sub sahara
of Africa. Most of them were found in cape town
onj table mountain this tells us that they lived
through cold and rough climate conditions.   WHY?
Trophy hunters and farmers hunted the lions to
extinction http//news.nationalgeographic.com/news
/2001/07/0726_capelion.html http//bigcats2.tripod
.com/Extinct_Cats.html
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Knysna Sea Horse
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The Ceolacanth
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The Cape Warthog
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REFERENCES http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cape
warthog www.wikiansnswers.com pictures from
Google pictures.
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The QUAGGA

• Origin
• The name quagga comes from the khoikhoi the first
  inhabitants of southern Africa. In khoi language
  quagga means zebra in English it also makes the
  same sound as a zebra. The quagga originated from
  a population of plain zebra. Its closest taxonomy
  (classification) is the giraffe.
• What is the qagga?
• Extinct type of zebra. It formerly inhabited open
  plains is South Africa, where its range
  overlapped that of the common zebra.

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The QUAGGA
Quagga

• Origin
• The name quagga comes from the khoikhoi the first
  inhabitants of southern Africa. In khoi language
  quagga means zebra in English it also makes the
  same sound as a zebra. The quagga originated from
  a population of plain zebra. Its closest taxonomy
  (classification) is the giraffe.
• What is the qagga?
• Extinct type of zebra. It formerly inhabited open
  plains is South Africa, where its range
  overlapped that of the common zebra.

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The QUAGGA

• Origin
• The name quagga comes from the khoikhoi the first
  inhabitants of southern Africa. In khoi language
  quagga means zebra in English it also makes the
  same sound as a zebra. The quagga originated from
  a population of plain zebra. Its closest taxonomy
  (classification) is the giraffe.
• What is the qagga?
• Extinct type of zebra. It formerly inhabited open
  plains is South Africa, where its range
  overlapped that of the common zebra.

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• What did it look like?..
• Its coat was sandy brown.
• Its legs and tail whitish only its head, neck
  and shoulders were dark-striped.
• Living in herds and competing with domestic sheep
  for grass, Quaggas were exterminated in the 19th
  century the last died in1883 in Amsterdam Zoo.
  Recent analyses of DNA from a Museum specimen
  indicated that the Quagga is almost certainly a
  variant of the common zebra rather than a
  separate species as was once believed. Quaggas
  are classified in the phylum Chordata, Subphylum
  Vertebrate, class Mammalia, order Perissodactyla,
  family Equidae.

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Where? Habitat The quagga lived on the drier
parts of South Africa on grassland. They lived
between the Orange River boarder and the great
kei river boarder. Basically in South Africas
Cape Province and southern part of the Orange
Free State
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Extinction

• There are two known theories to the extinction of
  the Quagga. They were hunted for their skin and
  meat until their kind was extinct thats the
  first theory. The second one is that over time
  the Quagga encounted evolution and changed and is
  no longer recognizable.
• Conservation
• No attempts were made to save the quagga, no one
  knew it was endangered until they saw the mare at
  the zoological society of Londons in regents
  park in 1870 that was when the photographed the
  only quagga alive.
• Today there is a quagga project going on in south
  Africa were people are putting all their
  knowledge in bringing back the quagga. So far
  they are breeding with selected plains zebras,
  they doing this because the quagga was known to
  have a very similar DNA to the zebra and if they
  breaded selected zebras maybe they would
  reproduce zebras with the colours of the quagga.
• References
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quagga.
• www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/quagga.htm

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