Alan Taylor, age 11, of Victoria, B. C., Canada, for his question:

Where are guaggas found?

The last quagga said goodbye to the world in the year 1872, after having lived a number of lonely years in the London Zoo. He was a striped, donkey type wild horse of Africa. His kind is now extinct and never again will quaggas be found upon our planet. However, sizeable herds of his cousins still survive. They are the start¬lingly striped zebras that' still"roam the plains and brushland in many parts of Africa. Zoologists suspect that the departed quagga closely resembled the ancestors of the smartly dressed zebras.

In any case, experts use him to    answer the tired old question as to whether azebra is white with black stripes or black with white stripes. The quagga's basic color was light buff with a series of dark stripes across his shoulders. This suggests that the zebra's snappy coat is basically light with dark stripes. The light stripes are rarely if ever snow white and the dark stripes are rarely if ever jet black.