ZEBRA CHARACTERS 
coloration and elaborate striping. The quagga, with 
its striped foreparts and plain hindparts, is a kind of 
terrestrial mermaid compounded of the forequarters of 
a Burchell’s zebra, with the hindquarters of a plain 
donkey. It is intermediate between the two races, and 
the danger of lingering at a halfway house is evidenced 
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