Assertion: quagga | /r/HasProperty | subspecie
Facets:
value: merely
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: There is no reference for the claim that an alleged Smithsonian study found that the Quagga was a subspecies.
text: (http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/1/3/291.full.pdf+html), then the study does NOT find that the quagga is a subspecies, but concludes that the evidence is insufficient to say either way, but that the Quagga did not share any unique alleles with the Burchell's zebra.
text: They were a subspecies (animals that are the same, but a little different, and live in different places) of Zebras.
text: Looking at the quagga mitochondrial DNA revealed that it was very closely related to the plains zebra—enough so that the quagga is now considered to be a subspecies.
text: But Rau maintained that the quagga was merely a subspecies, or a color variant, of the plains zebra -- distantly related enough to look different but closely related enough to be a candidate for interbreeding.
text: The quagga was a local form or subspecies within a species that still exists," says Rau, who is now 68 and until recently was head taxidermist at the South African Museum in Cape Town.