Paris Quagga
Catalogue number : not registered
Sex: male
Locality: Cape Colony
Date of acquisition: probably 1798
History of mount: original mount, mainly of wood
Measurements:
head - body |
1,93 m |
tail |
0,29 m |
ear |
0,15 m |
hindfoot |
0,43 m |
shoulder height |
1,18 m |
State of preservation: good
Further material of same individual: there is an articulated skeleton (No A544)
labelled "Quagga" in the Department of Comparative Anatomy, Paris Museum. It is not
certain whether it belongs to the skin.
References: Desmarest (1820); Renshaw (1904); Trouessart (1906); Pocock (1907);
Ridgeway (1909); Griffini (1913); Dorst (1952)
