The New York Times

How Many Humps on a Camel? In Kazakhstan, It’s Complicated

AKTAU, Kazakhstan — In most of the world, camels come in two types: two-humped Bactrian and one-humped dromedary. But nothing is so simple out in the desert of Kazakhstan, where the camels roaming ...
Eurasianet

Kazakhstan: Close Encounters with Camels on the Aral Sea Bed

I never thought they could get so huge. At the zoo when I was four, camels seemed big, but I was only three-feet tall. Everything was big then. At the bottom of the Aral Sea, in what is now a desert ...
Eurasianet

Camel Close Encounters on the Aral Sea Bed

At the bottom of the Aral Sea, in what is now a desert of salt and dust, EurasiaNet Central Asia news editor David Trilling gets uncomfortably close with the two-humped camels. Named for a former ...
TASS

Travelers from Kazakhstan plan to make world’s first round-the-globe camel journey

ST. PETERSBURG, October 13 (Itar-Tass) - Travelers from Kazakhstan plan to make the world’s first-ever round-the-globe camel journey, Baktiyar Kozhakhmetov, the initiator of the journey and director ...
PBS

Camel Fact Sheet

There are two species of camel: the Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) and the dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius). About 90% of the world’s camels are dromedary camels, also known as the Arabian ...