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the camel with a spare tank, built for deserts that punish everyone else.
means a two-humped camel native to the steppes of Central Asia, adapted for extreme heat, cold, and scarcity alike.
from named for ancient Bactria, a region roughly in modern Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, where these camels were prized pack animals along the Silk Road.
hump contentsfat storage, not water, despite the myth
temperature rangesurvives minus 30 to plus 50 celsius
wild populationcritically endangered, fewer than 1000 left
domesticated cousinfar more common than its wild ancestor