Comments on: How To Revive the Dead

By: Maggie

Maggie — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:51:00 +0000

There have been some studies that compared recovered quagga DNA to modern zebra DNA. Based off the genetics, quagga were so similar to zebras that they don’t warrant being their own distinct species, but rather a sub-species of the common plains zebra.

Because of this, most of the Quagga Project’s critics aren’t questioning the animals’ quagga status because of genetics, but rather because of its behavior and other traits that can’t be duplicated from breeding.

On the other hand, the Project’s supporters point out that the plains zebra and the quagga shared roughly the same habitat and argue that we can reasonably expect that the two very closely linked animals also behaved similarly.

By: hukes

hukes — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:43:27 +0000

Yeah, it wouldn’t be the real thing, just something that kinda looks like it.

It would be like a chinese iPod… well, forget that analogy.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 04:59:12 +0000

I can see how they’d be able to produce a breed that RESEMBLES the extinct species, but would it BE that species? Have there been any comparative DNA studies between the newly bred quaggas and the “fragments of quagga DNA”? And have you noticed, you don’t have to say “quagga” more than two or three times before it sounds really silly?