The quagga, whose name is onomatopoeia for the sound it made, is an extinct subspecies of zebra. They diverged from zebra during the Pleistocene Epoch, with quaggas developing a different coat pattern than zebras. They were partially covered by brown and white stripes, with a brown body and white legs. They were two and a half meters long and almost a meter and a half tall at the shoulder. Quaggas were lively equids, but unfortunately they were easy to kill, which lead to their untimely extinction at the hands of humans in 1878. They were prized for their meat and their skins, which were used for trading. Found in South Africa until their unfortunate extinction, quaggas lived in grasslands in mutually beneficial relationships with wildebeast and ostriches. They roamed in herds that could contain between 30 and 50 animals, grazing on the abundant grass. In 1987, a breeding project was started in South Africa with the intent to selectively breed zebras until they develop a quagga-like pattern. Once a population has been created, these pseudo-quaggas will be reintroduced into the wild even though their genetic code will be different. Foals in the current generation of the project are quickly losing their stripes and starting to resemble the extinct quagga more and more.