Complex sentence: While some individuals were taken to zoos in Europe, breeding programs were not successful and the quagga was extinct in the wild by 1878, and last captive specimen died in Amsterdam on August 12,1883.
Split into simpler sentences: While some individuals were taken to zoos in Europe, breeding programs were not successful and the quagga was extinct in the wild by 1878. The last captive specimen died in Amsterdam on August 12,1883.