CUBA CURIOSITIES: BREEDING OF DROMEDARIES (Camels) IN CUBA. .
It was August 24, 1989 when the port of Nuevitas, Camaguey Cuba arrived in a group of dromedaries (camels) from Australia where they had been bought by the government of Cuba. The group of these animals natural hot climates, arid, were composed of 23 individuals, including 18 females and five males.
The goal then was to create a reproduction and development center, which was located in the “La Herradura” enclavda in the municipality of Mariel and then to the Genetics Cattle Company en Los Naranjos.
This unit became part of the National Enterprise for the Protection of Flora and Fauna in 2003.
Low rainfall in this area and wakefulness in care made possible with a pro-environment adaptation.
Although the “method” to know was purely empirical, the team leader recognizes that also received advice from the person who brought the country, who explained the cycles of reproduction and diseases that can attack them.
According to the experience of caregivers in the mating season, the incrementárseles hormone levels.
During these years, explains the specialist, the procedures have borne fruit has increased the number of breeding females and the total mass in more than 20 percent. They currently have a population of 72, among young people, adults, and breeding stallions.
Breeding to be exported to other countries.
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The fate of these camels is diverse, says Hernandez. Those who are duly tamed will resorts such as Varadero, Santiago de Cuba, Holguin and Lenin Park in the capital; others are sent to zoos around the country, and to a lesser extent some are exported.
These ruminants are not docile or easily bend. You can tame them, but they are still wild, says Jorge Luis. They are different from cattle or horses, with which you can keep playing the hand. Dromedaries appreciation and intensive care. Females are more difficult to control because they have the instinct to protect their young.
“As it gets going adapting as fool, and that is when it is capable of carrying up to people,” says Jorge Luis, while placing the halter to one of the copies and tamed.
For skeptics who want to corroborate the existence of these dromedaries (camels) in a natural environment and in the Caribbean tropics, remain open doors of the La Herradura.
This only happens in Cuba and its key economic priorities.
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The Cuban History, Hollywood.
Arnoldo Varona, Editor.