Imagine yourself to be a camel. Write three lines about your life in
the desert.
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1) In extreme heat, a camel loses water 20 to 40 times less than the other animals in same environment.
2) Camel can lose 25% of body weight without getting dehydrated while other animals would have died.
3) Camel’s have long legs to keep their body away from the heating ground which can reach up to 70° C.
4) Camels’ mouths are adapted to chewing thorny plants and also have transparent third eyelid.
5) The feet of a camel are unusually wide to prevent them from sinking into the sand.
6) Camel excretes faeces so dry that they don’t need drying and can directly be used as fuel for fire.
7) The Horn of Africa in the African subcontinent has the world’s largest population of camels.
8) Wild Bactrian camel with tow humps is found in some parts of China and Mongolia.
9) The nostrils of the camels can be closed shut to protect them from sand storms.
10) An average camel can carry up to 100 Kg of weight for approximately 60 Kms in a day.
Camel is an important animal of earth which mainly belongs to Arabia. It is a most useful animal in the desert because it runs fast on sand where vehicles can’t run. That’s why it is called as “Ship of the Desert”. They eat lot of food and drink lots of water at a time and store it in their hump which is on their back. The stored food and water in the hump helps the camel to walk and work tirelessly and they can live without food and water for many days.