The camel is the ship of the desert.
Camels appeared 40 million years ago in North America. Still, for one reason or another, they disappeared from there. They appeared in South America and Asia, including two types of Arab camels: the one-humped Dromedary and Camillus Bacterius with two humps. Weights and bears hardships, and the second is higher and lighter than the first and is used mainly for riding. It is considered one of the pets, which is of the order of the ungulates and eats weeds, tree leaves, grains, soft branches, thorns and fruits, in addition to dry herbs, which many animals may not be able to eat; God has endowed him with strong teeth 34, especially the lower jaw, and the camel has a padded mouth that can withstand eating dry herbs and spiny plants, and its upper lip, which is split in half, helps it, and this is what other animal species cannot. He can withstand the lack of food and water for a much longer period than farm animals, so that he may lose 25% of his weight without significant damage. He can recover what he lost of water by drinking large quantities of it, which may amount to about 100 litres in less than a quarter of an hour. This is harmful to other animals because of the fluid imbalance it causes, but the camel tolerates this because water is not quickly absorbed from its digestive system. This allows enough time for the fluid balance in its body. The hump is an important store of fat. To it, he uses it as a source of food and water after it has oxidized. The female camel gives birth to one moult after a gestation period of thirteen months and breastfeeds him for about a year. The animal becomes an adult at the age of 10-12 years, and it can live for up to 40 years. The breeds of camels can be classified into four groups: the beauty of milk, the beauty of meat: the camels dual-purpose: the camel of the race where he is distinguished from other animals by the meeting of his two fingers in a wide slipper that expands when he steps on the ground, helping him to walk on the soft desert sand. Therefore, camels are called slippers, and they are generally peaceful animals, but they become fierce if provoked and show considerable anger, especially during the pollination season. Quarrelling males bite each other painfully, and the camel is distinguished by being a ruminant animal as it has two stomachs, which means that it can return food from the stomach to the mouth and digest it again, then swallow it again, hence the proverb that camels lied because they were watching them Her jaws moved with food even though it was not in front of her. Among its other advantages: its ability to withstand thirst, and it sets an example in this feature; Since in the spring and winter, he can live without water for two months or more and is satisfied with what he eats of plants rich in water, and in the summer he can withstand thirst for a period of (6) to (10) continuous days, as most animals perish when they lose about 20% of their body weight, while camels can survive even when they lose about 40% of their body weight without any complications and the reason for this is that the camel keeps its blood flowing as it does not pant and does not breathe from its mouth even if it is too hot, in addition to that its kidneys economize In the water, as the camel’s urine is very concentrated and its dung is semi-dry, and in addition to that, the camel does not sweat except when. Its body temperature reaches 41 degrees, and a camel can drink foul water or drink seawater about 18 litres of water if it is thirsty, as the kidneys have rid it of excess salts without affecting the blood balls because God created them oval and not created spherical like other creatures. When blood balls are filled with water, they swell and become Spherical without exploding. These factors help him live in the desert, where the temperature is high, and the water and food are scarce. One of the evolutionary traits of the camel is that it has a small ear that is abundant in the hair so that it is not exposed to the damage of the desert sands. The eye is fitted with two rows of long eyelashes to guard against pebbles and sand. A camel can walk at a speed of 65 kilometres per hour, and a two-humped camel can walk up to 50 kilometres per day, in addition to carrying a weight of more than 200 kilograms. Glory be to God, the camel is the only mammal that can change its body temperature between 34 and 41 degrees Celsius. By the way, camel meat is free of cholesterol, and camel milk is very healthy because it is free of saturated fat. He never forgives or forgets the offence, and he may wait ten years to take revenge, and his revenge will be fatal. In foreign cultures, they say that he has a memory like an elephant, but we say that he does not forget like a camel in our country. Women call their husband a camel.