Talk:Wild Bactrian camel

Chromosome Count

I'm finding the claim that the wild camel has 3 more chromosome pairs than all other camelids improbable, especially as its apparent domesticated descendents have reverted to the normal camelid number. When I tried following the citations I ended up at a paywall which did not publicly have this information and at IUCN Redlist which contains the text "Each skin sample has shown two or three distinct genetic differences to the domestic Bactrian camel and a 3% base difference."

I'm concerned that somehow the 3% base difference has mutated into 3 chromosome pairs here (And 3 Chromosomes in Camelid#Evolution). Kiore (talk) 07:40, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Conservation Status

How come it says "extinct" in the conservation status section in the top right corner, underneath the picture and above scientific classification.

The word "Extinct" is just the label for the left end of the IUCN continuum, which ranges from Extinct (left) through various levels of Threatened (middle) all the way to to Least Concern (right). Only the shaded circle indicates the status of this particular species. Compare this page to dodo, hippopotamus, and moose. Rexodus (talk) 21:42, 31 May 2018 (UTC)

Thirsty Mammals

"The wild Bactrian camel can also survive on water saltier than seawater, something which no other mammal in the world [...] can tolerate."

Can someone please explain cetaceans, then? Please? 4:30 AM is not a great time to ask yourself the question "What do whales drink?" for the first time in your life, but it sure does seem that whales can drink seawater, so do we know empirically that they cannot drink water yet saltier than even that when we don't even really know how MUCH they drink of ANY sort of water?

Can scientists please get on the mission of answering what whales can and do drink on average, because it is clearly crucially important. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.74.49.56 (talk) 09:05, 26 October 2019 (UTC) What do whales drink? 09:19, 26 October 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZephyrCon (talk • contribs)

Changes color from what???

One sentence of the article reads:

"Their thick and shaggy body hair changes colour to light brown or beige during winter."

Changes color from what??? 2601:200:C000:1A0:1D9F:B057:F504:B715 (talk) 18:47, 2 April 2022 (UTC)

lnactive external link

The link to Bactrian camels in the Scottish Wildlife Park is inactive and also somewhat irrelevant to this species. 92.40.216.204 (talk) 22:06, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

@92.40.216.204 On the other hand, it made me search for further information about the Bactrians in the Wildlife Park, which in turn led to the information that there are none of the feral species in captivity anywhere. 92.40.216.204 (talk) 23:44, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

But this in turn seems somewhat in contradiction to the existence of the various nature reserves mentioned? 92.40.216.204 (talk) 23:48, 15 August 2023 (UTC)