Dromedary, Arabian camel
Taxonomy Camelus dromedarius [Linnaeus, 1758.]. Citation: Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1:65. Type locality: "Africa," deserts of Libya and Arabia (domesticated stock).
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Arabian camel
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Arabian camels have been domesticated for approximately 3,500 years and have been long valued as pack animals. They can carry large loads for up to 25 miles (40 kilometers) a day.
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Bactrian Camel
The Bactrian Camel, Camelus bactrianus, is a two-humped camel that lives in the rocky Gobi desert and the grasslands (steppes) of Asia; ...
Also Called: Arabian Camel or Ship of the desert
The most distinctive feature of the dromedarian camel is its hump. Unlike the bactrian camel, the dromedarian camel only has one.
The one-humped Arabian camel (camelus dromedarius) no longer exists in the wild state, although the domesticated form is widely used from North Africa to India as an almost indispensable riding or baggage animal.
CAMEL (from the Arabic Djemal or the Heb. Gamal), the name of the single-humped Arabian Camelus dromedaries, but also applied to the two-humped central Asian C. bactrianus and to the extinct relatives of both.
The two species of true camel are the single-humped Arabian camel, or dromedary, Camelus dromedarius, a domesticated animal used in Arabia and North Africa, and the two-humped Bactrian camel (C. bactrianus) of central Asia.
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Arabian camels may once have lived wild in Arabia, but none of them live in the wild today. There are several million Arabian camels, and most of them live with the desert people of Africa and Asia.
Arabian Camel or Dromedary
Camels are large mammals that live in dry areas. There are two types of camels: the one-humped camel (the Arabian Camel or Dromedary) and the two-humped camel (the Bactrian Camel).
The bactrian camels humps work in the same way to the Arabian camels humps, with the bactrian camels humps used for storing fat which can be converted to water and energy when the bactrian camel is unable to find food and water.
There are two major types of Camels - the bactrian camel has 2 humps while the dromedary or arabian camel has one. Camels are known to live alone or in groups of up to 30 other Camels.
The exact range of the Arabian Camel will probably never be known. The species exists only in the domesticated state today in Arabia and has been introduced into other regions of the world.
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There are two main species of camel, the Dromedary Camel sometimes called the Arabian Camel which has a single hump and are warmer climate dwellers and the Bactrian Camel which has two humps and are rugged cold-climate camels.
The two species of camel are the single humped Arabian camel or dromedary , a domesticated animal used in the Arabia and North Africa, and the Bactrian two humped camel of Central Asia. Some wild bactrian camels exist in Turkistan and Mongolia .
The Dromedary has one hump on its back, in contrast to the Bactrian camel which has two. The Dromedary is sometimes called an Arabian camel. Some maintain that the name "dromedary" should be used to refer only to racing camels.
 See also: Camel, Dromedary, Bactrian camel, Llama, Guanaco
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