High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Wild Bactrian camel (Camelus ferus) called havtagai in Mongolian language (meaning: "flat") is closely related to the domesticated Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) and, like it, is a large, even-toed ungulate native to the steppes of central Asia, with double hump (small and pyramid-shaped). Most modern experts tend to describe it a separate species to the domesticated Bactrian Camel - see, for example: J. Hare (2008) and D. T. Potts (2004). It is presently restricted in the wild to remote regions of the Gobi and Taklamakan Deserts of Mongolia and Xinjiang. A small number of Wild Bactrian Camels still roam the Mangystau Province of southwest Kazakhstan and the Kashmir valley in India. They are also found along rivers in Siberia, where they migrate to during winter. Their habitat is in arid plains and hills where water sources are scarce and with very little vegetation with shrubs constituting its food source.