Ever heard of an animal that can carry 80 pounds of water with them? Well, that animal is the Arabian camel (dromedary) it stores up to that amount of fat that can break down to water and energy allowing them to travel up to 100 desert miles when they aren’t able to get any water. Like other camels that have two humps, the dromedary only has one hump. Camels barely sweat due to their body being use to the high temperatures that they live in and also from the little part of hair the camel has allows them not to get overheated. They tend to drink lots of water when they are able to refill up with water, having the ability to drink 30 gallons of water in just 13 minutes. Their tongues soak up water like it’s a sponge. The dromedary has long eyelashes naturally in order to keep the sand from getting in their eyes and also so that the sun wouldn’t be so bright in their eyes when they are trying to look for things in the desert. Their nostrils tend to stay close at certain times so that it will keep out the sand when the wind becomes strong throwing the sand everywhere. Theirs lips are even thickened so that when they’re eating majority of the desert plants it wouldn’t hurt their lips as bad. Their knees and other parts of the body has callouses meaning when they kneel or sit down in the sand it wouldn’t burn the dromedary from the hot sand. Unlike humans having birthing season all year round, the dromedaries birthing months are from January to May (although each region may have a much shorter period). Dromedaries female cycle is about 27 days in length and when they get pregnant they don’t give birth until 12 months later unlike a human giving birth after 9 months. Dromedaries tend to breed every other year. Their life span of a dromedary is about 40 to 50 years. Dromedaries seem to huddle up in big groups when they seem to getting too warm and that reduces the heat reflecting off of the ground allowing them to be able to cool down without having to find some shade. Humans usually sit a distance from each other because with everyone sitting together brings more heat rather than cooling them off. People may think that dromedaries are wild animals, but in actuality they’re not. Dromedaries are some of the friendliest animals that you could think of. All of the true wild dromedaries are extinct, the population of the domestic dromedaries is approximately around 15 million.
This is very interesting. I never knew really anything about camels. I think it is really cool how camels can carry 80 pounds of water!
ReplyDeleteThis was a very interesting read. I've always been into animals since I was a little girl so learning new facts is always interesting to me. I found it very interesting that these ca,else and drink 30 gallons of water in 13 minutes and that mothers remain pregnant for 12 months in oppose to 9, like humans.
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