Humans first domesticated camels between 3,500 – 3,000 years ago. It is thought that there are about 1000 wild Bactrian camels in the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia. The Bactrian camel once had an enormous range, however, it is now reduced to an estimated 1.4 million animals, mostly domesticated. There are almost 14 million Dromedary camels alive today that are domesticated animals, mostly living in Somalia, Sudan, Mauritania and nearby countries. ![]() There are two main species of camel, the Dromedary Camel sometimes called the Arabian Camel which has a single hump and are warmer climate dwellers and the Bactrian Camel which has two humps and are rugged cold-climate camels.įossil evidence indicates that the ancestors of modern camels evolved in North America during the Palaeogene period (a period of geologic time that lasting 42 million years and is a time when mammals evolved) and later spread to Asia. The name camel comes from the Greek kámēlos from the Hebrew ‘gamal’ or Arabic ‘Jamal’. Camels are native to the dry desert areas of western Asia and central and east Asia. There are several groups of ungulate mammals whose weight is distributed about equally by the third and fourth toes as they move around. ![]() Camels are even-toed ungulates, meaning ‘hoofed animals’.
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