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Quagga
:
This
animal is quagga. It used to live in South Africa. It liked
dry areas and big plains. 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. This was because we didn't realise that a quagga was a completely
different species. We thought it was part of the zebra family.
Elephant
Bird :
Elephant
bird lived on an island near Africa called Madagascar. This
bird was gigantic.
It was three meters tall. It was also the It laid the biggest eggs
in the world, the size footballs. It was also the world's largest
bird. 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 eggs were good to eat. So they
ate the eggs so when an old elephant bird died there would
be none to take its place. The last elephant bird probably
lived around 300 years ago.
