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Quagga
:
This
animal is quagga. It used to live in South Africa. It looks a little
like a zebra and a little like a horse. The quagga has stripe only
on its head and shoulders, and the rest of its body was brown. The
hunters of South Africa shot so many quaggas for their meat
and skins that, in about 1883,they finally shot the very last one.
Elephant
Bird :
Elephant
bird lived on an island near Africa. This bird wasn't gigantic.
It was three meters tall. It laid the biggest eggs in the world,
the size footballs. Because of it's size, this bird was called the
elephant bird. It was probably a slow runner and couldn't fly -
it was much too heavy. When people came to live on the island, they
discovered that the elephant bird's meat was good to eat. So they
hunted the birds, and went on hunting till there were none left.
The last elephant bird probably lived 300 years ago.
