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- 1 2 Petra Kaczensky, Chris Walzer & Bernd Steinhauer-Burkart: Great Gobi B Strictly Protected Area - a wild horse refuge. ECO Nature Edition, Steinhauer-Burkart OHG, 2004. ISBN 3-935803-20-6
- ↑ Chris Walzer & Petra Kaczensky: Wild camel training and collaring
- ↑ "Home". wildcamels.com.
- ↑ WCPF Newsletter 33
- ↑ "Hare":'WCPF Newsletter 28
- ↑ Final report for UNDP for the short-term international expert contracts, 2005 PDF Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
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