The competition for mates is fierce and they sometimes even fight to the death for a partner. Their female partners are much more gentle if a little stubborn. Sometimes the female will reject its baby and the herdsman will sit with the female for long hours, singing to her, until she starts to cry and eventually accept her baby. The Bactarian camel was domesticated thousands of years ago but there are still about 300 wild camels, or Khavtgai, which live in the Gobi, mainly in the southern areas of the Gobi Altai Aimag. Nomads visits the Wild Camel breeding project near Bayan Tooroi, the Headquarters of the Great Gobi National Park and Strictly Protected Area, in the aimag of Gobi Altai.
Nomads also has many camel riding safaris in all areas of the desert.
The snow leopard is a globally threatened animal. In the Mongol Altai range there are said to be about 1700 of these creatures left living in the wild. Since 1972 hunting has been prohibited, however, each year still about 150 animals are illegally hunted. Their number have also been decreasing due to predators and rare skin diseases. The snow leopard is about 50 kg in weight and about 1metre in length with a tail of about 70 cm.