belg4mit writes "One hump or two? Fresh water or brine? The full article"
Cool. These camels apparently have adapted to survive on salt water and "can withstand enormous physiological stress." While that part seems to be a parallel for Perl, I hope the fact that they might be "critically endangered" is not.
John Hare has carried out several expeditons to Mongolia and China. The wild camels in the Kum Tagh sand dunes near Tibet's Arjin Shan Mountains were discovered in 1999. 169 wild Bactrian camels were found along with 22 wild sheep and 14 Tibetan asses. The population is known as "naïve". Being isolated for so long they had no fear of man.
It makes me sad that animals should find it necessary to fear man.
