Wild camel
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phylum | Chordata | The Wild camel is a critically endangered species of camel living in parts of northwestern China and southwestern Mongolia, only 1000 are still alive. It is closely related to the Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus). Both are large, double-humped even-toed ungulates native to the steppes of central Asia. Until recently, wild Bactrian camels were thought to have descended from domesticated Bactrian camels that became feral after being released into the wild. However, genetic studies have established it as a separate species which diverged from the Bactrian camel about 1.1 million years ago.
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class | Mammalia | |
infraclass | Eutheria | |
order | Artiodactyla | |
family | Camelidae | |
genus | Camelus | |
species | C. ferus |