| A young Kazakh nomad leads a domesticated bactrian camel near the
town of Hutubi in China's, October 18, 1997. Only 730 to 880 wild
bactrian camels, ancestors of Asia's two-humped beast of burden, are
expected to remain in the deserts of China's western Xinjiang and
neighboring Mongolia. Threats to the survival of the dwindling herds of
wild camels are numerous. Camels are often hunted for meat, and poisoned
by potassium cyanide.© Reuters/Natalie Behring/Archive Photos
EBSCO Publishing
Searchasaurus Photograph Database April 29,
2002. |