quaggy
Example Sentences
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After 30 years of colonization, quaggas have displaced zebra mussels as the dominant mussel in the Great Lakes.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023
Biologists believe the water there contains less calcium, which quaggas need to make their shells, said Dr. Harvey Bootsma, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s School of Freshwater Sciences.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023
It’s tragic that we have no more passenger pigeons, or Tasmanian tigers, or quaggas.
From Slate • Jan. 29, 2016
If you could bring something extinct back to life, what would you choose?Dodos, passenger pigeons, Tasmanian tigers, quaggas – animals that went extinct recently.
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2012
Almost immediately afterwards some loud sneezes were heard, and looking to the right they caught sight of a troop of mingled gnus and quaggas, passing and repassing without a pause.
From Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand by Kingston, William Henry Giles