#Bactrian camel

[vintagewildlife]

Bactrian camels By: Unknown photographer From: World Watch List for Domestic Animal Diversity 1995

[weepingwidar]

Tom Howse (British, 1988) - Aromatic Bactrian Reminiscence (2021)

[hallowshumour]

Des(s)ert 🐫🍫🥜🏜

[dharmaart]

Bactrian camel

Watercolour and ballpoint pen on paper.

[redrcs]

You may approach.

From the archives. Tourist rides in Cappodoccia.

[midwestaesthetics]

Gobi Desert, Mongolia and China...

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldCamelDay 🐪🐫:

4 figurines of Bactrian Camels Yotkan, Xinjiang, China, 1st–6th c. CE Clay, H 7.6, 6.0, 3.8, 3.3 cm British Museum Collection MAS.24, MAS.8, 1902,1220.375, MAS.25

[gaykarstaagforever]

Time to show love to Bactrian camels, who seem to never show up in American productions about the Silk Road, even though those are 100% the camels that would be doing that run, because they are from Central Asia, where that whole thing is.

...Probably because there are tons of Arabian (one-humped) camels in North America, because they were brought over here as part of various historic schemes that didn't pan out, and they do well in our deserts. And I love them, don't get me wrong.

But tonight, this is about the two-hump love.

Also, all camel skeletons look like this:

So best of luck with those reconstructions, future paleontologists!

Also, these Bactrian camels are from a totally domesticated breed. There IS a wild species of Bactrians, and there are only 1000 of them left, and they look like this:

Funny thing is...they aren't the ancestors of the domesticated ones. The domesticated ones have an extinct ancestor that split off from these a million years ago. There was just another two-humped camel we domesticated, then it went extinct. The wild ones now are the distant cousins of that, and are now nearly extinct themselves.

Oh, and fun fact: camels evolved in North America. They were a temperate grassland animal. Then they crossed Beringia into Asia at a time when that was possible, spread to Europe and Africa, then went extinct in North America and Europe, until they only existed in Africa and Central Asia.

So the ones from Africa / the Middle East that live here in our deserts now are basically like white people who now live in Sub-Saharan Africa.

...This post got complicated.

Oh, biology!

[baebeylik]

Bactrian Camel Figurines. Tang Dynasty. China. 618-907 CE

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

[terebelli]

Bactrian camel. 📸 Fedor Lashkov

[twilightofthesandwiches]

[vintagewildlife]

Bactrian camel By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

[godblessyoublackemperor]

a Baby

[hallowshumour]

Chocoholic 🍫🍫🍫‼️

[rinusuarez]

Loved this one and read about it. Working on the illustration was very relaxing and came out nicely. While working on the head, I was getting slightly confused but in the end, it was all good. I hope you enjoy the sheet as much as I did studying this mysterious and relatively new species. (When I say relatively new is because not so long ago it wasn't classified as a species). Check out the process: Instagram Join the Club

[jauntypigeon]

Zoo Trip 2025