Abstract
In India, double humped camel is living in Nobra valley of Ladakh region at an altitude of 18,300ft. The animal has been declared critically endangered by IUCN (1998), yet the animal has not been explored in detail. The study was conducted along the breeding tract of the Nobra valley. Thirty out 70 double humped camels having been shifted from their natural habitat, Nobra valley to Government farm chichoot, near the capital city, Leh were also included in the study. Biometric studies were done and the body measurements included measurement of Heart girth, Body Length, Lower jaw, Height up to wither, Tail length, Neck length, Distance between two eyes, Ear length, Face length, Hump 1, Hump 2, Distance between two humps, Length of fore leg, Length of hind leg, Fore foot pad, Hind foot pad and Lower jaw. The animal has relatively shorter legs compared to Mongolian Bactrian. The various biometric characteristics recorded are presented.
Highlights
Dromedary and Bactrian camels are occupied different areas in the world, the dromedary living in hot desert (Gaili et al, 2000) and the Bactrian rather in cold desert (Konuspayeva and Faye, 2010)
In India, the double humped camel is only distributed in Nobra valley, a cold arid region of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir State
The sample included 30 out of 70 double humped camels having been shifted from Nobra valley to Government farm chichoot, Leh in the capital city which is not actual habitat of the animal
Summary
Dromedary and Bactrian camels are occupied different areas in the world, the dromedary living in hot desert (Gaili et al, 2000) and the Bactrian rather in cold desert (Konuspayeva and Faye, 2010). In India, the double humped camel is only distributed in Nobra valley, a cold arid region of Ladakh in Jammu and Kashmir State. The double-humped camel like the dromedary (Hjort af Ornas and Ali Hussein, 1993) is a multipurpose animal. It is a well-adapted animal to wide difference of temperature between summer and winter and to low oxygen pressure in high altitude.Due to its adaptability for cold arid high altitude area, it is used as mainly as an exclusive source of transportation of load. A detailed report on phenotypic classification of Camelus dromedarius in Saudi Arabia has been recently undertaken (Abdallah and Faye, 2012) by their body measurements, but the morphometric characteristics in Ladakh double humped camel have not been studied so for and their differences on other related parameters to their general conformation were not clearly described. The present study was designed to characterize the Ladakh double humped camel (Figure 1)
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