bactrian

The only truly wild population of camels is apparently the wild Bactrian camels, in the gobi desert 3.

But the moment you cross this devious little Bactrian border, you start getting more and more pushback upon being labeled Asian.

Tangentially related, there is a Greek influence on Buddhism in East Asia because Buddhism arrived in China via the Greek Bactrian kingdom.

The Bactrian has two humps and the Dromedary has one (among other differences).

The Dromedary likely evolved right in the Arabian peninsula, having separated from the Bactrian of Central Asia more than a million years ago.

There's a bactrian-camel dip in the middle of the day.

Buddhism arrived in China via the Greek Bactrian kingdom {{citation-needed}}.

Perl 6 can get the bactrian camel instead.

The fun mnemonic for camel names is that the Dromedary has one hump and the Bactrian has two, like the first letters of their names, 'D' and 'B', turned sideways.

But its ‘joined-up’ nature seems to have been a regional style — it’s also found in scripts like Syriac, Avestan, Mandaic, Manichaean, and even the delightfully bizarre Bactrian Greek (there’s some nice samples in [2]).

To borrow another Perlisism, "The debate rages on: Is this metaphor Bactrian or Dromedary?"

This would be referred to as the "Bactrian week", and the previous +5-2 week a "Dromedary week".

On another (lighter) note, since dromedaries are camels too, calling the "camel world" a "bactrian world" would be more clear.

According to wikipedia, there’s technically only 1400 “wild” camels or so, from the wild Bactrian group Some other neat facts I just learned: 1.

There was an Indo-Bactrian Greek kingdom in modern day Afghanistan and Pakistan long after the Greeks were conquered by the Romans (around 300 CE).

Travellers from Asia journeyed to the Greco-Bactrian kingdom of Ghandara (whose name is a corruption of Alexandria) and took Buddhism back with them to the east.

Only tangentially related, but I find that there is a massive under-appreciation of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom[1] which was left in the wake of Alexander's eastern conquest.