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Camels
Camels are common desert animals that were once used, and still often used, to cross deserts with. Because they can go weeks without drinking water, they are easy to take care of. All questions regarding camels are welcome here.
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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.
Source: The Camel Farm, see the link below.
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
How can camels live in the desert with so little water?
well sometimes they could
dig muck up and then there could be water and the desert could have
lakes
Camels will need to find a watering hole for a proper source of water.
Camels can last a long time without having to replenish water. They are used to cross deserts because they don't need to find water there.
What type of environment do Camel spiders live in?
Most Camel spiders live in warm and arid habitats, including all deserts in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres except for Australia.
What are the 2 types of camels?
The two types are bactarian camels and the other one is dromedary camel
They don't! You have mixed plants and animals from 2-3 continents that do not share the same area of the globe. Camels are Asian or African, cacti and sagebrush lizards are from the Americas.
Why do camels have long nostrils?
Camels are able to actually close their nostrils to protect against the desert sand.
What were the ages of the three wise men?
The Bible does not state the ages of the three wise men, or Magi, who came to worship the infant Jesus.
Interestingly, it does not even state that there were three wise men. This has just always been assumed because three gifts were mentioned.
Are camels endangered or threatend?
Bactrian camels are camels with two humps. They only live in the desert of Mongolia and northwestern China. They are threatened by habitat loss due to mining and industrial products in their habitat. Also, livestock herders sometimes kill them because they compete with livestock for very limited food sources and water.
What are the benefits of double eyelids to bactrian camels?
The camel's third eyelid acts as a windshield against sand. It can help wash the sand out of their eyes, and it's seethrough so they can keep their eyes closed and still see where they are going.
Camels help people by:
- providing transportation; for riding in deserts
- carrying loads as beasts of burden
- being able to travel long distances with less need to feed and water (thus, the load needed to support the animals is less than for other beasts of burden)
- providing some protection to travelers during sandstorms because of their mass
- finding sources of water
- alerting with calls when a predator is near
- being trainable, like a horse is trainable
- being obedient to their owners' commands (example: kneeling to allow people to climb up onto them)
- by completing a journey without breaking down, like cars do
Do the camels knees help them in the desert?
They have padded and elastic soles that help them travel on the rough terrain i.e. the desert. Their soles are also very tough and impermeable, and it ensures that they don't sink into the sand. Hope this helps!
I would estimate a full grown Camel would weigh 1500lbs to 3000lbs. This is based on: -camels can be 6x the weight of a llama (wiki) and llamas can weigh 280lbs to 450lbs (wiki). So that would mean 1680lbs to 2700lbs. -camels supposedly can drink 20 to 50 gallons at one time. And they can withstand at least 20 to 25% weight loss due to sweating. (wiki) So if the above were true that would mean 20 to 50 gallons of water equals 20% to 25% of a camels weight. Since water weight is about 8.3lbs a gallon. That would be 332lbs to 2085lbs. -Additionally a horse of similar height to a camel could be very roughly 1000lbs to 3000lbs according to my horse riding friend. Disclaimer: I haven't had any experience with camels and I would imagine it would be hard to get a specific weight estimation due to how much of their weight could just be water weight.
Do camels live in units or herds?
it depends if the camel is own because some people use camels to travel and the people usually travel with lots of camels and sometimes with just one camel.so it is both.
How long can the camel survive without water?
Some camels have two humps and some camels have one hump. The camels with two humps are called Bactrian camels. Bactrian camels live in the Gobi desert and the grasslands of Asia. These camels are amazing because they can survive extremely hot weather and extremely cold weather.Other camels have only one hump. These are called Arabian camels. Arabian camels live in the Middle East and http://africa.answers.com" title="Africa">Africa.Camels are useful because they are strong and they can go a longtime without food and water. Depending on the temperature, a camel can live without water for about one week to one month. In very hot weather, they can live about a week, and in cool weather, about a month.Camels are sometimes called 'ships of the desert.' They are called 'ships of the desert' because people ride them around the hot, dry deserts of the world.Camels are very useful for traveling through the desert. They can carry heavy packs. People can drink their milk and eat their meat, which tastes like beef. And there dung can be used as fuel.
Most can go several days to several weeks, but if the have to they can live for up to two months without water.
Why does a camel have very dry poo?
There is scarcity of water in desert so a camel have the adaptations of excreting dry dung.
Where did the wise men visit Jesus?
The author of Matthew's Gospel did not use the term 'wise men', he said that magi followed a star from the east, and even then, he still does not say there were three of them.
The magi were priests of the Zoroastrian religion which the Jews had encountered during the Babylonian Exile. So, the 'wise men', or magi would have come from Persia or Babylon (Iran or Iraq in modern terms) where Zoroastrianism was practised.
John Shelby Spong (A Bishop Rethinks the Birth of Jesus) says that among people he knows in New Testament circles, the universal assumption is that Matthew's magi, or wise men, were not actual people. Matthew, by having the priests come to worship Jesus, wanted to show that even the priests of this great religion looked up to Jesus.
In more recent times, the Zoroastrian connection became less important, and the priests began to be called wise men. So, historically, the wise men were a literary fiction and did not really come from anywhere.
Another Answer:
Concerning the Magi's place of origin, Matthew uses two Greek expressions for areas east of Palestine. He first says the Magi are from "the East" (or "eastern parts"-Greek, ton anatolon ), or the distant East. Secondly he says the Magi saw the star in "the East" (Greek, te anatole )-west of the Magi's home, but east from Palestine's viewpoint, in the near East.
With this in mind, some biblical scholars believe that the Magi came from Parthia - a great empire east of the Euphrates-biblically "the distant east." This empire conquered the lands east of the Euphrates area, had Babylon as its capital and included the areas of Persia, Bactria, etc. It ruled the whole area and was the empire of the East-the land of the Magi.
The Parthians rose to power around 250 B.C. in and around the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. That was the very land into which the house of Israel-not Judah-had been taken captive by the Assyrians (see 2 Kings chapters 15,17, and 18 and here about the tribe of Reuben:
1 Chronicles 5:6New King James Version (NKJV)6 and Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria carried into captivity. He was leader of the Reubenites.
Taken then to the next logical step, these 'Parthians' appear to have been the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel who Josephus noted in the 1st Century AD that they were a massive group of peoples in the area north and east of Jerusalem. Wouldn't it have been quite proper for the children of Israel all - and not just Judah where Christ was born - to come and pay homage to their King? If this is the real story-line then the Magi were 12 in number representing each of the tribes of Israel bringing the three gifts to the child Jesus.
The 'Wise Men' are more appropriately called the 'Magi.' Concerning the Magi's place of origin, Matthew uses two Greek expressions for areas east of Palestine. He first says the Magi are from "the East" (or "eastern parts"-Greek, ton anatolon ), or the distant East. Secondly he says the Magi saw the star in "the East" (Greek, te anatole )-west of the Magi's home, but east from Palestine's viewpoint, in the near East.
With this in mind, some biblical scholars believe that the Magi came from Parthia - a great empire east of the Euphrates-biblically "the distant east." This empire conquered the lands east of the Euphrates area, had Babylon as its capital and included the areas of Persia, Bactria, etc. It ruled the whole area and was the empire of the East-the land of the Magi.
The Parthians rose to power around 250 B.C. in and around the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. That was the very land into which the house of Israel-not Judah-had been taken captive by the Assyrians (see 2 Kings chapters 15,17, and 18 and here about the tribe of Reuben:
1 Chronicles 5:6New King James Version (NKJV)6 and Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria carried into captivity. He was leader of the Reubenites.
Taken then to the next logical step, these 'Parthians' appear to have been the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Israel who Josephus noted in the 1st Century AD that they were a massive group of peoples in the area north and east of Jerusalem. Wouldn't it have been quite proper for the children of Israel all - and not just Judah where Christ was born - to come and pay homage to their King? If this is the real story-line then the Magi were 12 in number representing each of the tribes of Israel bringing the three gifts to the child Jesus.
Do people keep camels as pets?
They could be a pet but you would have to live in the desert. Otherwise they couldn't survive.
WHAT??? A camel is specially adapted to survive in a desert...it does not require a desert to survive. As for "pet"...obviously you can't keep it in the house, but you can have one the way you have a horse or goat if you have a permit. There are camels in petting zoos and some are even used the way therapeutic horses are used, sometimes with even better results.
How many toes does a camel have on each foot?
Camels have five 'legs'. They have the standard four that you would expect. They have another lever underneath their chest that helps them to get up from the ground, which is also referred to as a leg.
How is camel adapted to cope with the sandy conditions?
Camels can survive up to 30 days without food and up to two weeks without water. They have evolved specifically to survive in deserts and harsh environments.
The tongue and mouth of a camel is very leathery and strong. Which means that camels can eat vegetation with thorns or cactuses, that most other mammals avoid.
Camels have long eyelashes which protect their eyes from sand. They also have large three-toed feet which are spread specifically so their weight doesn't sink into the sand. Camels also have hairy slit nostrils and hairy ears to keep sand out of them.
Their hump(s) are used to store fat, which is converted from excessive nutrients that they do not need. When a camel needs additional food or water, they metabolise the fat in their hump(s). 1,000g of fatty tissue holds the equivalent nutrients of 1,111g of water.
Camels do not physically store water in their humps they store fat. The belief that camels store water in their humps is a myth and zoological hoax which has been disproved by scientists.
Due to their vast size, many predators will ignore a camel, because they can be rather difficult to subdue. However if the pack of predators are hungry enough, they will attempt to bring down a camel.
Camels have fur which protects their skin from the harsh, scorching desert sun and to keep them warm during the cold desert nights. They also have a hairless underbelly to help cool them down when they lie down on the sand.
Camels are also camouflaged. Their skin and fur is the same or similar colour to the desert. Either dark-blonde, sandy or tan.
Camels have fascinated scientists for centuries. From Ancient China, Ancient Greece up to the modern era. Specifically because of their abilities to survive in harsher desert environments for so long, where other animals, humans included, would perish.
Camels are the perfect example of how animals have evolved to suit their environments.
Why were camels used to travel?
camels have been used for transporting goods across deserts for thousands of years. In fact, camels are the only desert animals that can carry heavy loads of goods and travel for a long period of time without food or water.
Camels are extremely adept at traveling in hot, sandy climates. Their hump is made of fat, which the camel can use to feed itself if it doesn't have any food, and they do not need much food or water compared to horses. They can go days without a drink. They also have split feet instead of hooves, so they have an easier time on sand than horses. They also have a second eyelid and nostrils that will close shut to keep sand out. Most importantly, however, camels are strong and can haul heavy weights long distances. You can even ride them, although I have it on good authority that they are very uncomfortable and smelly!
Dromedary camels live in North Western India and the lowlands of Afghanistan. Some dromedary camels live in the outside parts of the Arabian peninsula and Sonila to the south and westwood across African deserts. A large amount of Dromedary camels also live in an African desert called the Sahara desert, which is the largest desert in the world.
