The Bactrian camel is 10 to 11.5 feet long, 5.2 to 5.9 feet tall at shoulder height, and weighs 990 to 1,100 pounds. Meanwhile, the dromedary camel is 7.2 to 11.2 feet long, ...

The Bactrian Hoard Is Back Dazzling treasure from the nomads of ancient Afghanistan. Jun 29, 2010 4:07 PM Nov 20, ... Sign Up These gold triangles may have been sewn onto clothing as a decoration.

The Detroit Zoo is celebrating the birth of a male Bactrian camel born May 18, to 6-year-old mother Suren and 6-year-old father Rusty. The calf can be seen in the camel habitat across from the ...

That’s not my name: confusing wild and Bactrian camels ‘masks extinction risk’ Study calls for using the right name for critically endangered wild camels to ensure they get the conservation ...

The second species, the two-humped Bactrian camel, was on a similar trajectory until very recently, but still less than 1,000 of the world’s 1.4 million Bactrians are wild.

Decoding the genome of the camel Date: May 28, 2013 Source: Veterinärmedizinische Universität Wien Summary: By sequencing the genome of a Bactrian camel, researchers have made a significant ...

Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus), dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) and alpaca (Vicugna pacos) are economically important livestock. Although the Bactrian camel and dromedary are large, typically ...

Bactrian camels serve as an important means of transportation in the cold desert regions of China and Mongolia. Here we present a 2.01 Gb draft genome sequence from both a wild and a domestic ...

The Utica Zoo announced on Tuesday the deaths of two long-time residents — Najla, a Bactrian camel, and Zeke, a zebu. Najla, 19, who came to the zoo in 2005, lived with Furlow, 14, a male ...