The wild Bactrian camel has longer legs, lighter fur, and smaller humps than domesticated camels have. |
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Compared to the domestic Bactrian camel, the wild Bactrian is greyer, slimmer, and has smaller sized humps spaced more widely apart. |
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In 2001, for example, the U.N. Environment Program declared that the wild Bactrian camels were a newly discovered species. |
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In the 1920s an Asian elephant and a Bactrian camel were bought and put into service, taking visitors on rides around the zoo. |
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It is estimated that no more than 660 wild Bactrian camels, Camelus bactrianus ferus, and possibly as few as 500 survive in China. |
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On our trek, which has covered 132 miles in ten days, we have counted 141 wild Bactrian camels. |
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But the two-humped Bactrian camels the group of mainly middle-aged women were given to ride turned out to be a little too wild. |
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The objects date mostly from the great Bronze Age of the Bactrian civilisation. |
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I was waiting for him to promise to create a national health care system for the Bactrian children. |
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Even healthy Bactrian camels are meager procreators because the birth of a single camel requires a 14-month gestation period. |
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One, found in northern Africa and central Asia, consists of the dromedary and bactrian camels. |
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Pieces resembling the Bactrian gold have come on the market. |
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The wild Bactrian is greyer, slimmer and has smaller sized humps. |
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The Bactrian has generally a more massive body than the Dromedary. |
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Though wild Bactrian camels and bears tend to inhabit its more inaccessible areas, the Gobi has enough diversity of habitat to be teeming with life. |
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Though it is likely the ancestor of domesticated camels, he notes that studies suggest a significant DNA difference between wild and domesticated Bactrian camels. |
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Like many other wild ungulates, Bactrian camels live in social groups dominated by a single male, but I had no idea that a bull could control such a large harem. |
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The wild Bactrian camel, a two-humped ancestor of domesticated camels, is now critically endangered in its native habitat in the harsh deserts of Northwest China and Mongolia. |
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Another animal newly classified is the wild Bactrian camel from China and Mongolia, which has been hunted because it competes with domestic camels for water and grazing. |
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In October 2003, twelve captive wild Bactrian camels were moved to the new holding area near Bayan Tooroi in time for the 2003-2004 breeding season. |
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With two jeeps and a supply truck, we establish a base camp in Hongliugou Valley, where we have arrangements to hire twenty domesticated Bactrian camels. |
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Camels, both the one-humped Arabian or dromedary and the two-humped Bactrian variety, have been used to support campaigns in desert areas from biblical times onwards. |
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The Persian king no longer controlled his own destiny, and was taken prisoner by Bessus, his Bactrian satrap and kinsman. |
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By at least 1200 BC, the first camel saddles had appeared, and Bactrian camels could be ridden. |
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Camels were domesticated soon after this, with the Bactrian camel in Mongolia and the Arabian camel becoming beasts of burden. |
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The study identifies monotransitive and ditransitive alignment types and their developments as the Bactrian language evolved over centuries. |
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The Kingdom of Gandhara lasted from the Vedic period as a centre of Greco-Buddhism, Bactrian Zoroastrianism and Animism. |
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Although feral populations exist in Australia, India and Kazakhstan, the only wild camels left are the wild Bactrian camels of the Gobi Desert. |
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The first saddle was positioned to the back of the camel, and control of the Bactrian camel was exercised by means of a stick. |
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It also made possible nomadic pastoralism in semi arid areas, along the margins of deserts, and eventually led to the domestication of both the dromedary and Bactrian camel. |
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The slow encroachment of human activity has affected the migration routes and habitats of the Bactrian camel, Capra Ibex, Panthera Uncia and other endangered animals. |
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