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Nomad heritage. Kazakh men

have used birds of prey to hunt in

western Mongolia since the 15th

century. Although threatened

by modernisation, it remains an

honourable tradition and rite of

passage. Eagles are trained to seek

marmots, foxes and wolves.

Beasts of burden. Domesticated

at least 3000 years ago, the two-

humped Bactrian camel is native

to Mongolia. It is one of the tavun-

horshoo, or ‘fi ve snouts’ – the fi ve

domesticated animals of Mongolia

(horse, yak, sheep, goat, and camel)

on which the country’s herding

economy depends.

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