Ladakh's double-humped Bactrian camels are set to debut at the 77th Republic Day parade. Discover how these high-altitude biological marvels support the Indian Army in extreme Himalayan terrains.

Humps and hair. That's the scene in Bulgan Soum, a tiny Mongolian town in the middle of the Gobi Desert about 160 miles north of the Chinese border. Bactrian camels arrive in all directions on foot, ...

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney introduced two new arrivals to the Rosamond Gifford Zoo on Tuesday - Bactrian camels Patrick and George. These male camels are juvenile half-brothers who came ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Zoo Miami is proud to announce the birth of a critically endangered Bactrian camel. After a pregnancy of approximately 14 months, "Sunny," a 3-year-old female gave birth to what ...

AKTAU, Kazakhstan — In most of the world, camels come in two types: two-humped Bactrian and one-humped dromedary. But nothing is so simple out in the desert of Kazakhstan, where the camels roaming ...

Two-humped Bactrian camels were domesticated thousands of years ago to carry goods and people across Asia. Every year, herders come to one Gobi... Where Camels Become Beauty Queens: Inside Mongolia's ...

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