Why did the quaggas get extint?

Answer 1

Quaggas were hunted for their meat and skin. The meat was eaten and the skin was used as sacks for farmers.

The quagga was killed for flesh and blood. Dried meat from the quagga was found in the 1980s, but another theory is very possible. The quagga had very similar DNA to the African zebra. As evolution moved on and more and more zebras reproduced, the quagga was killed, chased out of its habitat and later died, or was hunted to extinction by people or other animals. But the most likely answer falls down to the human race and zebras today. We did not help them survive in theory, but the rest must have died over time naturally. As other animals moved into the area, the quaggas were hunted and chased from their home.

the dutch wanted to use the grasslands that the quaqqa lived on for their own cattle so they killed as many as possible.

The last wild quaggas was probably extinct in 1999 in a place called Haray in South Africa when there was a quagga fight show and 7 to 10 quaggas were killed when fighting against bulls and other wild animals. Only then did the scientists realise that quaggas were a separate species and not the same as the Plain South African zebras.

Answer 2

It was hunted to extinction for it's meat and hide. It was thought at the time the last one was killed in the wild (about 1870) that it was merely a variation on the zebra. it was not realized until some years later that the Quagga was a separate species in itself.

Answer 3

The last quagga died in 1883 in an Amsterdam Zoo.