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Contrary to popular belief, the camel does not store water in its hump. The hump is a food reserve composed mainly of fat. Althoughwater is produced when the fat is broken down, the oxygen used in the process caus es an additional loss of water through the lungs. This more or less cancels the amount of water gained from the hump. The main advantage of the hump is that the camel‟s fat is concentrated in a single place - - 5 allowing the camel to lose heat freely from th e rest of its body. Another way in which camels conserve water is by retaining the urea which most mammals excrete in their urine. The urea is built up into proteins by bacteria in the camel‟s stomach. In addition, camels avoid sweating by allowing thei r body temperature to vary over a greater range than that of any other mammal. Camels do not begin to sweat until their body temperature reaches 46 C (45 F) a temperature that would produce a high fever in a human. After a lengthy period without water , c amels will drink up to 180 litres (40 gallons) at a times

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Answered by Arslankincsem
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Camels possess humps as an adaptive feature to survive the harsh climates of the deserts.

Their humps are not composed of water , but instead composed of fat, which can be used to obtain body water in the absence of water being available in the desert.

When a camel finds a water source it can drink gallons of water, and store them in the fat tissues of the hump, which can be later broken down to obtain metabolic water.

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