How sad it would be to find the wild Bactrian camel as permanently extinct species in the close to future simply because this rare and special animal is critically in danger. This two humped camel is the native animal of the deserts of Mongolia and China. According to an estimate, presently there are only significantly less than 1,000 wild Bactrian camels in the globe. The wild Bactrian camel is biologically recognized as “Camelus bactrianus” and most of the surviving wild Bactrian camels dwell in the remote and deserted places of the Chinese nuclear test variety.
The wild Bactrian camel has a special quality that it can survive by drinking even a saltwater slush. The other species of camel are not able to adopt this top quality. This wonderful feature has been developed in the wild Bactrian camel as a result of living in extreme desert situations for thousands of years and hence an immune technique is developed in their bodies which could prove resistant to particular kinds of illness. In China the wild Bactrian camel are located in the Gobi desert variety which has intense climatic circumstances. In this region there is no fresh water only the saline variety which bubbles up to the surface from underground springs and on which the wild Bactrian camel survives. No other living creature, not even the domestic camel, can drink it.
There are some breeding and protection programmes by the Mongolian and the Chinese authorities and a modest captive population of the wild Bactrian camel is also kept in Mongolia and China. The wild Bactrian camel is normally targeted by hunters looking for food, sport, or merely to defend their personal domestic animals which compete with the camels for grazing space. In October 2002, the estimated 800 remaining in the wild in northwest China and Mongolia were classified as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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