ArticlePastoralism : research, policy and practice2017
Piebald Camels.
Article in Pastoralism : research, policy and practice, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Exploiting morphobiometric and genomic variability of African indigenous camel populations-A review.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Pooled it
- Cognitive performance and variability in dromedary camels: insights from a comparative psychometric approach.BMC veterinary research · 2025Article
- Domestication of the Dromedary Revisited and Its Consequences for Legislation as to Keeping Livestock or Pet Animals.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- The Youngest, the Heaviest and/or the Darkest? Selection Potentialities and Determinants of Leadership in Canarian Dromedary Camels.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- On-Target CRISPR/Cas9 Activity Can Cause Undesigned Large Deletion in Mouse Zygotes.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- From Desert to Medicine: A Review of Camel Genomics and Therapeutic Products.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Review
- Cdrom Archive: A Gateway to Study Camel Phenotypes.Frontiers in genetics · 2019Review
- The role of Nucularia perrinii Batt. (Chenopodiaceae) in the camel-based Sahrawi social-ecological system.Journal of ethnobiology and ethnomedicine · 2017Article
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Abstract
Animal breeds are the diverse outcome of the thousands-year-long process of livestock domestication. Many of these breeds are piebald, resulting from the artificial selection by pastoralists of animals bearing a genetic condition known as leucism, and selected for their productive, behavioural, or aesthetical traits. Piebald dromedary camels have not been studied or discussed before, and their same existence is often overlooked. Based on fieldwork in Western Sahara, direct observations across Northern and East Africa and the Middle East, and a literature review, we address the morphological and behavioural traits, geographical distribution, taxonomy, and material and cultural importance of piebald (painted) camels. They are a hundreds-year-old camel breed used for caravans, as mounts, and for aesthetical and cultural reasons across Sudan, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Western Sahara, and Morocco. While they are increasingly bred out of a pastoral context for tourism and entertainment in the Canary Islands, mainland Europe, and the USA, in part of their original African range, piebald camels are under threat due to wars, droughts, and demise of pastoral livelihoods. More research is needed about these 'beautiful and dignified' animals.
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