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Red Camel 199 861-6 waits time before departure from Wernigerode Hasserode, with the evening service from Eisfelder Talmühle
Bactrian camels are known for their characteristic double humps, as opposed to their dromedary cousins, who have only one. These humps, which can stand about 30 inches (76 cm) high, store fat that the camel can use as both a food and water source during lean times.
This handsome beast was part of a group at the Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens near Burford, Oxfordshire.
A camel is an even-toed ungulate within the genus Camelus, bearing distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. The two surviving species of camel are the dromedary, or one-humped camel (C. dromedarius), which inhabits the Middle East and the Horn of Africa; and the Bactrian, or two-humped camel (C. bactrianus), which inhabits Central Asia. Both species have been domesticated; they provide milk, meat, hair for textiles or goods such as felted pouches, and are working animals with tasks ranging from human transport to bearing loads.
The term camel is derived via Latin and Greek (camelus and κάμηλος kamēlos respectively) from Hebrew or Phoeniciangāmāl.
"Camel" is also used more broadly to describe any of the six camel-like mammals in the family Camelidae: the two true camels and the four New World camelids: the llama, alpaca, guanaco, and vicuña of South America.
Biology
The average life expectancy of a camel is 40 to 50 years.A full-grown adult camel stands 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) at the shoulder and 2.15 m (7 ft 1 in) at the hump. Camels can run at up to 65 km/h (40 mph) in short bursts and sustain speeds of up to 40 km/h (25 mph). Bactrian camels weigh 300 to 1,000 kg (660 to 2,200 lb) and dromedaries 300 to 600 kg (660 to 1,320 lb).
The male dromedary camel has in its throat an organ called a dulla, a large, inflatable sac he extrudes from his mouth when in rut to assert dominance and attract females. It resembles a long, swollen, pink tongue hanging out of the side of its mouth.[ Camels mate by having both male and female sitting on the ground, with the male mounting from behind.The male usually ejaculates three or four times within a single mating session. Camelids are the only ungulates to mate in a sitting position.
Ecological and behavioral adaptations
Camels do not directly store water in their humps as was once commonly believed. The humps are actually reservoirs of fatty tissue: concentrating body fat in their humps minimizes the insulating effect fat would have if distributed over the rest of their bodies, helping camels survive in hot climates. When this tissue is metabolized, it yields more than one gram of water for every gram of fat processed. This fat metabolization, while releasing energy, causes water to evaporate from the lungs during respiration (as oxygen is required for the metabolic process): overall, there is a net decrease in water.
Camels have a series of physiological adaptations that allow them to withstand long periods of time without any external source of water. Unlike other mammals, their red blood cells are oval rather than circular in shape. This facilitates the flow of red blood cells during dehydration and makes them better at withstanding high osmotic variation without rupturing when drinking large amounts of water: a 600 kg (1,300 lb) camel can drink 200 L (53 US gal) of water in three minutes.
Camels are able to withstand changes in body temperature and water consumption that would kill most other animals. Their temperature ranges from 34 °C (93 °F) at dawn and steadily increases to 40 °C (104 °F) by sunset, before they cool off at night again.] Maintaining the brain temperature within certain limits is critical for animals; to assist this, camels have a rete mirabile, a complex of arteries and veins lying very close to each other which utilizes countercurrent blood flow to cool blood flowing to the brain. Camels rarely sweat, even when ambient temperatures reach 49 °C (120 °F). Any sweat that does occur evaporates at the skin level rather than at the surface of their coat; the heat of vaporization therefore comes from body heat rather than ambient heat. Camels can withstand losing 25% of their body weight to sweating, whereas most other mammals can withstand only about 12–14% dehydration before cardiac failure results from circulatory disturbance.
When the camel exhales, water vapor becomes trapped in their nostrils and is reabsorbed into the body as a means to conserve water.Camels eating green herbage can ingest sufficient moisture in milder conditions to maintain their bodies' hydrated state without the need for drinking.
Camels' immune system differs from those of other mammals. Normally, the Y-shaped antibody molecules consist of two heavy (or long) chains along the length of the Y, and two light (or short) chains at each tip of the Y. Camels, in addition to these, also have antibodies made of only two heavy chains, a trait that makes them smaller and more durable. These "heavy-chain-only" antibodies, discovered in 1993, are thought to have developed 50 million years ago, after camelids split from ruminants and pigs.The kidneys and intestines of a camel are very efficient at reabsorbing water. Camel urine comes out as a thick syrup, and camel feces are so dry that they do not require drying when the Bedouins use them to fuel fires.
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Somali camels and a Swahili handler with dogs file past an Omani-styled residential fort at low tide. Shela Dunes, Lamu Archipelago, Kenya.
Evening camel shadows in the Sahara Desert.
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Camel trekking towards Uluru at sunset (you can see the big rock in the top right on the horizon line). That's me right in the middle riding solo on my camel.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia, 2006
Looking back south from North Window Overlook to Camel Butte, Three Sisters in the right background. - Monument Valley, Arizona.
scanned slide, Minolta X700
Camel dressed up for a ride, at Golden sea beach, Puri, Odisha, India. Camels are a fancy here because they have great charm as big animals and can walk on this sandy beach, they are decorated by their owners/caretakers. They are mostly traded in the greatest animal fest i.e. Pushkar camel fair in Rajasthan. For a detailed explanation please refer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushkar_Fair?wprov=sfla1
Hunder, Nubra valley, Ladakh, India
It is said that is not always seen everything in the image, that’s in processing when the details that had gone unnoticed appears, now I think it's true
Canon 5D Mark 111
Canon 24-70 F2.8L USM
ISO 200
54mm
F16
Exposure 25 seconds
8 Frames
Lee Filters - 1.2 Grad / 1.2ND
Camel Rock - Bermagui on the south coast of NSW - an amazing place to get away.
Enjoying our 4 day trip away with the Focus Group.
Camel Rock Surf Beach near Bermagui NSW. A quick walk from the nearest car park. Been visiting this place for quite a number of times yet only a handful of lucky shots #earthporn #lifeofadventure #ig_color #colors_of_day #places_wow #passionpassport #insta_worldz #ig_world_photo #makeitrein #nature #exploretottravel #thisisadventure #adventurerising #livetravelchannel #australiagram #fantastic_earth
Camel Rock, located at the Garden of the Gods park in the Shawnee National Forest. This formation is supposedly millions of years old and was formed when this area used to be beneath water.
Camera: Minolta XD11
Lens: Minolta MD Zoom 70-210mm
Film: Kodak Ektar 100
Aperture: F/14
Shutter Speed: "O" (1/100th of a sec.)
Date: October 23rd, 2015, 12.39 p.m.
Location: Shawnee National Forest, Illinois, U.S.A.
XD11 Ektar 100 Fall Tree 2015 13ff
If the camel owner is more concern to his camel to prevent of being hurt than the victory, he can throw a rope on the ground which means that he accept defeat which is also called as pes (means give up). The wrestling match lasts for only 10-15 minutes and wrestler camel can compete once a day. The victorious camel brings its four feet and greets the audience very proud and received the rug as his reward and leaves the field while the loser camel shows stillness and humiliation. Camel wrestling events are held with both discipline and strong nod to tradition. The events were concluded with joy and proud as to the owners of the winning camel and wrestling fans who are all delighted of having a momentous day.