Burchell's zebras are a species of extinct plains Zebra. They were the lightest-colored of all zebras, with completely white legs and no stripes on their stomachs. In biology and ecology, extinction is the ceasing of existence of a species or group of species. ... Species Equus zebra Equus quagga Equus grevyi *See Equus for other species. ...
A southern subspecies of the plains zebra, the Burchell's zebra (Equus burchelli burchelli), lacked stripes on the hindquarters. Its basic body color was reddish-yellow. Burchell's zebra existed from southern Botswana into the Orange Free State of South Africa. As European settlement spread northward from the Cape to colonial Southern Rhodesia, this subspecies was hunted to extinction. The wild herds had disappeared by 1910, and the last known individual died in the Berlin Zoo in 1918. Flag of the Orange Free State The Orange Free State (Afrikaans: Oranje Vrystaat) was the historical precursor to the present day Free State province of the Republic of South Africa. ... World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... This article is about the former British colony of (Southern) Rhodesia , today Zimbabwe. ... The Zoologischer Garten Berlin (zoological garden Berlin) is one of the biggest zoos in Germany and the one with the largest number of species of the world. ...
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