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What is a camel's diet?

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The Camel may have to live on dried leaves, seeds, and whatever desert plants it can find. A camel can eat a thorny twig without hurting its mouth. The lining of the mouth is so tough that the sharp thorns cannot push through the skin. If food is very scarce, a camel will eat anything--bones, fish, meat, leather, and even its owner's tent.

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Camels eat a lot of things. They eat the desert food, plants, and sometimes bugs.

a camel may eat anything, including dirt, if they are hungry enough

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Camels usually like to eat cacti, because it stores water in it. The coating that lines the inside of a camels mouth is so tough that it can eat cacti and other spiney plants without puncturing the inside of its mouth. If it cant find plants, it will eat almost anything; fish, leather, bones, and even the owners' tents. But, these are only the last resorts. It can also use the stored food and water in its hump

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"roughage" hay/straw shrubs leaves and VERY little fruit or vegetables

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Fruits And Vegetables But only the main types of a fruit a camel can have and a camel can not have strawberrys

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camels eat dates,nuts,seeds,wheat,oats and dry grain.

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green leaves from shrubs and trees, and hay, strw, roughage

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drinks alot of water and eat grass

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they have water lots and other foods

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