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DOMESTICATED ANIMALS AND PLANTS 



quagga has shorter ears and wears more hair upon the tail than 

 does the zebra. He is also somewhat heavier in the body and 

 the stripes are less distinctly marked, fading out almost com- 

 pletely into a dirty white on the hinder and under parts of the 

 body, except for a dark back stripe running from the withers 

 to the setting on of the tail. The flesh of the quagga has 



Fig. 39. The water buffalo of Asia and Africa. This is the only true 



buffalo, though the name is often applied to both the American and the 



European bison 



long been esteemed by the Boers as food for servants, that is, 

 natives. 



In all of these types and races the zebra is timid in the wild 

 and vicious in captivity. Accordingly he has never been domesti- 

 cated or even fully tamed except to the extent seen in shows, and 

 to the further extent that individuals are sometimes " in-spanned " 

 with mules by the African farmers, thus making up a part of 

 the team. 



