🐃Bactrian camel
De kameel (Camelus bactrianus) is een evenhoevig zoogdier uit de familie van de kameelachtigen. In archaïsch Nederlands, bepaalde dialecten en sommige uitdrukkingen wordt hij ook kemel genoemd. De kameel verschilt van de dromedaris door o.a. het aantal bulten op de rug. De dromedaris heeft er een, de kameel twee. Lang werd gedacht dat de gedomesticeerde kameel afstamde van de wilde kameel, maar het resultaat van genetisch onderzoek uit 2017 maakt dat echter zeer onwaarschijnlijk. Vermoedelijk stammen beide soorten af van verschillende voorouders. De kameel is een zeer algemene soort die veelvuldig gehouden wordt en regelmatig in dierentuinen te zien is. De wilde kameel daarentegen is ernstig in zijn bestaan bedreigd en komt alleen voor in kleine populaties in de steppen en halfwoestijnen van China en Mongolië.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Camelus bactrianus yet.
- Body mass
- 475 kg
- Body length
- not recorded
- Shoulder height
- 1.7 m
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 35 years
Everything we know about the Bactrian camel
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass475 kgAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
data quality: high
Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0
Shoulder height1.7 m1.6–1.8 m · typical rangenot statedDetails ↓Hide ↑
SDZWA factsheet body-measurements table, shoulder height: '160-180 cm (5.2-5.9 ft)', data attributed to Franklin (2011). Midpoint of the published range. Domestic Bactrian camel.
Source: Franklin 2011, Family Camelidae, in Wilson & Mittermeier (eds), Handbook of the Mammals of the World Vol 2, Lynx Edicions; as compiled in San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Extant Camels factsheet, https://ielc.libguides.com/sdzg/factsheets/extantcamels/characteristics · see citation
Maximum lifespan35 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation1.1 yearsAnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1AnAgeDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l475 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Bactrian camel yet: body length, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyCamelidae
- ›genusCamelus
- ›speciesCamelus bactrianus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- familyCamelidae
- genusCamelus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderTylopoda
- familyCamelidae
- genusCamelus
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