What animal was the quaaga closely related to quagga?

It confirmed that the quagga was more closely related to zebras than to horses, with the quagga and mountain zebra (Equus zebra) sharing an ancestor 3–4 million years ago. An immunological study published the following year found the quagga to be closest to the plains zebra.

1. Which animal is the quagga most closely related to?
2. What did the quagga evolve from?
3. Is a quagga a Zorse?
4. What breed is a quagga?

Which animal is the quagga most closely related to?

The animal, a relative of the zebra, went extinct over 100 years ago. Now, a group of scientists outside of Cape Town are bringing it back. Like zebras, the quagga has stripes, though these only appear on the front half of their bodies. Unlike the zebra, they are brown along the rear half of their body.

What did the quagga evolve from?

These results suggest that the quagga descended from a population of plains zebras that became isolated and the distinct quagga body type and coloring evolved rapidly.

Is a quagga a Zorse?

It may well be that quaggas are merely zorse specimens that mistaken naturalists have chosen to describe as quaggas, that is, out of all the various naturally occurring zorse specimens available, they have chosen those having a particular subset of the wider range of traits seen in zorses as a whole.

What breed is a quagga?

The DNA evidence determined that the quagga was not a separate species at all, but rather a subspecies of the plains zebra. The plains zebra is the zebra everyone knows – the common zebra of Africa's grasslands, the zebra you're most likely to encounter in nature documentaries and at your local zoo.