Knowsley Safari Park Baby Camel
- Thread starter beckiscott
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I wish collections would not always claim the birth of an endangered species when their Bactrian camels breed . The zoo ones are all domesticated and very different to the wild camel , not certain if there are any of these in zoos now , possibly some in China .
Indeed, it pains me too. At least when you publish on the subject, let it be zoo... correct! Domesticated Bactrian camels are far from an endangered species (and sometimes even an environmental nuisance given the unsustainable numbers).
Re Bele's question: wild Bactrians have been exhibited for quite sometime in the Ungulates section of Beijing Zoo. Not sure re. current inventory for Beijing Zoo and possibly other eastern Chinese collections maintain them.
I guess it's too difficult/expensive to import actual Wild Bactrian camels? Sorry if that's a daft question
What we have been commenting about is the endangered bit as a complete HOAX and factually INCORRECT. It is this kind of newspaper trash that makes the serious captive-breeding community the laughing stock of Number 10 Downing Street.
The last thing we were suggesting is taking wild Bactrian camels from the wild. Now I am on this subject of truly wild and ENDANGERED Bactrian camels; there is a semi captive-breeding project in the P.R. of China which is doing just that in the central Chinese Gobi desert.
I didn't mean take wild Wild Bactrian camels (as opposed to their domesticated counterpart) from the wild, but the ones already in zoos in China. It seems to be difficult/expensive/even downright impossible to get animals from that country.
I guess it would be a waste of money even if we did get a hold of some genuine wild Bactrians from Chinese zoos, since we would probably have to send them back again.
I guess it would be a waste of money even if we did get a hold of some genuine wild Bactrians from Chinese zoos, since we would probably have to send them back again.