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Bactrian Camel, Gansu Province, China, 1980

Two-humped, or Bactrian, camels roam wild in the Gobi. This one has its shaggy winter coat, which it will shed when the weather warms. Bactrian camels have tough feet for crossing rocky land.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, the National Geographic Book Desert, 1999)

Photograph by James L. Stanfield

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