Les quaggas (genre de zèbre) se sont éteints il y a plus de cent ans. Ils revivent aujourd’hui grâce aux scientifiques.

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Rau quagga walk on Elandsfontein farm, in the Riebeeck Valley, on February 3, 2016, near Wellington, about 90 km from Cape Town. In a spectacular valley less than two hours' drive north of Cape Town, a small herd of animals provides the chance to travel back in time over more than a century. The animals roaming over a wide plain encased by jagged mountain ranges look like quaggas, a subspecies of the plains zebra -- but quaggas are extinct. A small group of scientists and conservationists believe they have recreated the quagga, which is distinct from other zebra mainly through the lack of the characteristic black and white stripes on its hindquarters. / AFP / RODGER BOSCH
Pour apaiser le débat, ces nouveaux animaux ont été formellement nommés des «quaggas de Rau», afin de les distinguer de leurs ancêtres disparus. AFP / RODGER BOSCH

 

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