Dromedary camels account for about 90% of the world's 15 million camels. The other being the two-humped bactrian camel.
The dromedary camel is capable of drinking 100 L (30 gal.) of water in just 10 minutes.
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Camels store fat in the hump, not water! In fact baby camels are born without a hump because the layer of fat does not develop until they eat solid food.
The dromedary camel is one of the best-known members of the camel family. Other members of the camel family include the llama and the alpaca in South America. The Dromedary has one hump on its back, in contrast to the Bactrian camel which has two.
One Hump, Please: The Dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius) is a large even-toed ungulate native to northern Africa and western Asia, and is the best-known member of the camel family.
The Dromedary camel and the Bactrian camel are both still used for milk (which is more nutritious than cows milk), meat and as beasts of burden (an animal that is kept by humans and trained as a working animal), ...
The most prominent difference between the Bactrian and Dromedary camels is their humps. The Bactrian camel has two humps on its back while the Dromedary camel has only one.
Another difference between these two species is the length of their hair.
Dromedary camels were domesticated 4,000 years ago in what is today the United Arab Emirates. They went extinct in the wild 2,000 years later, and nowadays only domesticated, semi-domesticated and feral populations remain.
Classification:Class Mammalia (mammals), Order Artiodactyla, Suborder Tylopoda, Family Camelidae, Genus Camelus, Species C. dromedarius (dromedary camel) and C. bactrianus (Bactrian camel).
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Dry desert areas of southwestern Asia, the Sahara Desert in North Africa and along the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East and Indian desert areas. There is a large feral population of dromedary camels in the Australian outback.
 See also: Dromedary, Camel, Bactrian camel, Llama, Arabian Camel
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