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satellite collars. One of them has formed his own herd with five female wild camels. The breeding centre which is financed by the Wild Camel
Protection Foundation and administered by the Director of Gobi "A" covers 40 hectares (99 acres). In 2008 the Veterinary University of Vienna confirmed after extensive DNA testing that the wild camel is a new and separate species which separated from any other known camel species over 750,000 years ago.
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Twenty km from the reserve is the wild camel breeding centre at Zakhyn Us, which was established in 2004 with 12 wild camels which had been caught by
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Climate is extremely "continental". Temperatures in the Gobi can fall to −40 °C (−40 °F) in winter and rise to +40 °C (104 °F) in the summer. With an average yearly rainfall of about 100 mm (3.9 in), the climate is extremely arid.
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Great Gobi A lies in the southwestern part of
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