AnimalsThe Bactrian camel has two humps and a thick woolly coat for bitter winters. In India a small number live in the Nubra Valley of Ladakh, a reminder of the old Silk Route trade.
Quick facts
- Scientific name
- Camelus bactrianus
- Group
- Mammals
- Diet
- Herbivore (eats plants)
- Lives in
- Central Asia
- Habitat
- Cold deserts and dry steppe
- A young one is called
- calf
- A group is called
- caravan
- Conservation status
- No category in our data
How it is classified
Scientists sort living things into groups within groups. Reading down, each step is a smaller group, ending with the species itself.
- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Chordata
- Class Mammalia
- Order Artiodactyla
- Family Camelidae
- Genus Camelus
- Species Camelus bactrianus
Other members of the family Camelidae on this site: dromedary camel.
More distant relatives in the order Artiodactyla: blackbuck, chital, cow, gaur, giraffe, goat, hippopotamus, moose, nilgai, pig, reindeer, sambar.
Classification follows the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Other reference works arrange some groups differently. How classification works.
Is it in danger?
No Red List category for the Bactrian camel was found in our data source. What the categories mean.