Some of South Africa’s endangered and extinct species

1. Some of South Africa’s endangered and extinct species By: VG grade 10 History class

2. The Endangered and Extinct Cape Mountain Zebra Mountain Lion Knysna Sea Horse The Cape Warthog The Ceolasanth Quagga

3. 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 Back

4. Knysna Sea Horse Back

5. The Ceolacanth Back

6. The Cape Warthog Back REFERENCES http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cape warthog www.wikiansnswers.com pictures from Google pictures.

7. 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. Next

8. 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. NEXT

9. 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. Next

10. 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. Next

11. 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 Africa’s Cape Province and southern part of the Orange Free State Next

12. 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 that’s 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 London’s 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 Back