Hello,

You can contact with our colleague Dr. Carlos Gutierrez ([email protected]).

Although he has been working for years in Camelus dromedarius as a clinician; perhaps he can help you with C. bactrianus or know anyone working with bactrians.

Good luck!!!

Thank Juan. I already know Dr Gutierrez. I was interested in Bactrian camels but not as zoo animals so I was really hoping to hear from colleagues from China, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan. The silence is not a good sign.

Thank you Haldis,

I know Peter and his wife they are working with dromedaries as milking animals in the very special set up of the UAE. They have a different expertise. I know Prof Niasari I did a “camel workshop” at Teheran University for him a few years ago. He is a very good scientist but also him with a different expertise: camel reproduction: implanting Bactrian embryos in dromedary surrogate mothers (there are very few Bactrian in Iran) and camel AI .

Bactrian and dromedaries are very similar (they interbreed and produce fertile offsprings) so there are not many differences

My few simple questions: how to estimate the body weight of a bactrian camel? Is the formula used to estimate body weight in dromedaries ever been used for bactrians ? Is camel pox present among bactrians (probably yes) but is the disease clinically similar to the one affecting dromedaries? Is C. titillator present in bactrian (probably yes)? Is lymphadenitis common in bactrian as in the dromedary? Is Sarcoptes scabiei the main culprit for causing mange or other mites? Body areas affected as in the dromedary ? How the syndrome “wry neck” is treated? What is the watering interval during dry condition? What is the morning and evening rectal temperature in a normally dehydrated Bactrian ? etc etc etc .

Can you or somebody else answer? Alternatively if offered the possibility I would be happy to spend some time in a nomad camp to drink Bactrian camel milk and ask the herdsman a million questions!

At the ISOCARD2015 in Kazakhstan in June 2015 I met a veterinarian (Eskarki or something) who works at a camel dairy  farm with about 1000 Bactrian camels, in west part of Kazakhstan not far from the Caspian Sea. But he does not speak English, only Russian and Kazakh I guess. The farm is named "Pervomajskij". E-mail address: [email protected] .

thank you Malin I will try to contact him with simple english and google/russian text!   

How about the research center in India, they have Bactrians too, right? They should have vets experienced in Bactrians too, I would guess.

I am working my research papers on Arabian Camels or Camelus dromedarius but i known very good institute in Berlin, Germany , Faculty of Vet. Med., Free University of Berlin, Prof. Dr. Peter Henning Clausen his worked on the Bacterian Camels.