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Injaz (Arabic: إنجاز, meaning "achievement"; April 8, 2009 [1] - January 12, 2020 [2]) was a female dromedary camel, credited with being the world's first cloned camel. . Nisar Ahmad Wani, a reproductive biologist and head of the research team at the Camel Reproduction Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, announced on April 14, 2009, that the cloned camel was born after an ...
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
Camel milk is a staple food of desert nomad tribes and is sometimes considered a meal itself; a nomad can live on only camel milk for almost a month. [19] [39] [123] [124] Camel milk can readily be made into yogurt, but can only be made into butter if it is soured first, churned, and a clarifying agent is then added. [19]
The She-Camel of God (Arabic: نَاقة الله, romanized: naaqat Allah, lit. 'camel of God (f.)') in Islam was a miraculous female camel sent by God to the people of Thamud in Al-Hijr , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] after they demanded a miracle from Salih to prove his prophethood.
The common name "dromedary" comes from the Old French dromedaire or the Late Latin dromedarius.These originated from the Greek word dromas, δρομάς (ο, η) (GEN (γενική) dromados, δρομάδος), meaning "running" or "runner", [5] [6] used in Greek in the combination δρομάς κάμηλος (dromas kamelos), literally "running camel", to refer to the dromedary.
Male Bactrian camel mating with female dromedary. A tülu camel is a breed of camel that results from mating a male Bactrian camel with a female dromedary. This breed is sometimes called an F1 hybrid camel. The resulting camel is larger than either a Bactrian or a dromedary, and has traditionally been used as a draft animal. This breed of camel ...
Genus name Epoch Remarks Aepycamelus: Miocene: Tall, s-shaped neck, true padded camel feet Aguascalientia [24] Earliest Miocene: A small, primitive, narrow-snouted floridatraguline camel from Mexico, Texas, and Panama Camelops: Pliocene-Pleistocene: Large, with true camel feet and hump. Status uncertain Eulamaops: Pleistocene: From South ...
Insemination of a female llama with sperm from a male dromedary camel has been the only successful combination. Inseminating a female camel with llama sperm has not produced viable offspring. [6] [7] The first cama showed signs of becoming sexually mature at age four, when he showed a desire to breed with a female guanaco and a female llama. He ...