Can’t you just picture camels traveling across the desert sand with their humps silhouetted against the glorious sunset? They ...

On April 22, 2025, Woburn Safari Park in the UK welcomed a rare Bactrian camel calf. The species is critically endangered in the wild, with fewer than 1,000 remaining globally. Keepers say the ...

Camels are large land mammals best known for their humps. There are three camel species: dromedary, Bactrian, and wild Bactrian camels. The single-humped dromedary camel represents 90% of the ...

Jackson said the areas Bactrian camels inhabit in the wild reach extreme temperatures, ranging from -20 degrees in the winter to 100 degrees in the summer.

Nisar Ahmad Wani carried out the world’s first successful camel cloning. Now, his team at the Reproductive Biotechnology Centre, in Dubai, clones camels for beauty pageants and racing.

The wild Bactrian camel's mating season is at the end of winter, when the male camel becomes unusually ferocious. At this time, the male neither eats nor drinks and sleeps little.

Wild Bactrian camels are listed as critically endangered and the eighth most endangered large mammal in the world because of hunting and competition with livestock for food and other resources.

Wild bactrian camels have become critically endangered, with populations declining rapidly over the last 60 years due to hunting and loss of habitat. Fewer than 1,000 still live in the wild today.

Nisar Ahmad Wani carried out the world’s first successful camel cloning. Now, his team at the Reproductive Biotechnology Centre, in Dubai, clones camels for beauty pageants and racing.