Reinhold Rau

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Reinhold Rau (7 February 1932 - 11 February 2006) was a well-known South African natural historian. He was born near Frankfurt, Germany. He was trained as a fossil preparator at Senckenberg Museum and joined the South African Museum in 1951.

In 1969, he re-mounted the quagga foal, the only extant specimen in southern African museum collections. Dried tissue samples from the foal's skin, together with additional tissue samples from the two Mainz quaggas that he re-mounted in 1980/81, formed the basis of the DNA analyses that led to the discovery that the Quagga was a subspecies of the Plains Zebra, not a distinct species. Reinhold Rau was the pioneer of the Quagga Project, an attempt to re-breed the extinct Quagga. In 2000, the Cape Tercentenary Foundation awarded him the Molteno Medal for lifetime services to nature conservation in the Cape.

References

D.T. Max (2006-01-01). "Can You Revive an Extinct Animal?". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
"Reinhold Rau (obituary)". Telegraph. 2006-03-24. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
Donald G. Mcneil Jr. (2006-03-23). "Reinhold E. Rau, Taxidermist on a Quest, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
"The Cape Tercentenary Foundation Medal".

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Name	Rau, Reinhold
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Short description	South African historian
Date of birth	1932-02-07
Place of birth
Date of death	2006-02-11
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