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.
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