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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 
Fic. 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. 
