Sometimes difficult circumstances occasionally require some out-of-the-box thinking. Such was the history of camels in the ...

The most common is that those humps look like portable water tanks; they are ready to drink in the scorching desert heat. Spoiler alert: they are not. Camels don't carry water in their humps ...

Camels' humps are often associated with these animals' ability to go for long periods without taking a drink. But they don't store water in them. Instead, their humps are made of fat. Camels are ...

The hump stores up to 80 pounds of fat, which a camel can break down into water and energy when sustenance is not available. These humps give camels their legendary ability to travel up to 100 ...

Camels consume water economically and use its hump to store fat, which acts as storage in times of food and water deprivation. Camels drinking water. Camels can withstand long periods of extreme ...

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