What are the features of a camel to adapt it's surrounding ?
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Camels are well adapted for survival in the desert. Their adaptations include: large, flat feet - to spread their weight on the sand. thick fur on the top of the body for shade, and thin fur elsewhere to allow easy heat loss.
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Adaptive features of camels are:
- It has a broad feet helping it to walk on the soft sand without sinking.
- It can store food ( but not water as many think) in its hump. It can store water in its blood.
- It has thick lips which enable it to eat prickly desert plants without pain.
- It has long eyelashes that keep the sand out. It can shut its nostrils to keep out sand.
- It has long legs that keep the sand's heat away from the body.
- It has long hair that keeps it warm in cold desert nights.
- It has an extra transparent eyelid in each eye that can move from side to side to remove the sand.It can see while waking through sand storms with this eyelid closed over its eyes.
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