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A camel (from Latin: camelus and Ancient Greek: κάμηλος (kamēlos) from Ancient Semitic: gāmāl [7] [8]) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. Camels have long been domesticated and, as livestock, they provide food (camel milk and meat) and textiles (fiber and ...
A camel's hump doesn't contain water or bone… it’s fat. And each hump can store up to 36 kilograms of it. Which can sustain the camel for weeks or even months without food. The fat is ...
The hump stores up to 80 lb (36 kg) of fat, which the camel can break down into energy to meet its needs when resources are scarce; the hump also helps dissipate body heat. [1] Bactrian camel - also known as the Mongolian camel or domestic Bactrian camel, is a large even-toed ungulate native to the steppes of Central Asia. It has two humps on ...
Both had a number of arrangements produced several years later by the composer for various choral and part-song configurations. Late in his life, German agreed to have Just So Songs arranged for full chorus and orchestra, but he had retired from composing so he chose the younger composer John West to orchestrate and arrange.
Bonaparte theorizes that her clitoris is simply too far away from her vagina, and to prove it, she undertakes a study of her own. Aided by friends who were doctors, she measures the distance between the clitoris and vagina of 243 different women — and publishes her findings under the pen name A.E. Narjani in a medical journal called Bruxelles ...
"Hump Day" is a play off the idiom "over the hump," which refers to being at the midpoint. The phrase was used colloquially in the 1920s — when people were saying things like "applesauce" and ...
The dromedary (Camelus dromedarius), also known as the dromedary camel, Arabian camel and one-humped camel, is a large camel of the genus Camelus with one hump on its back. It is the tallest of the three camel species; adult males stand 1.8–2.4 m (5 ft 11 in – 7 ft 10 in) at the shoulder, while females are 1.7–1.9 m (5 ft 7 in – 6 ft 3 in) tall.
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