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alongside the customary techno-utopian or counterintuitive visions of the future, was a champion camel-jumper,

who boasted of clearing seven camels in one leap, and the head of a pigeon-racing club, who described a recent competition where some of the unfortunate competitors were eaten by predators

zero-energy system for keeping camel milk cool in soaring temperatures that commonly reach 45c (113 Fahrenheit).

and one camel. Visitors on the first day were stunned. Its beyond comprehension, said Mary Louise Starosciak,

Similar procedures are recommended in the Kama sutra. Ingredients for such practices include honey, camels milk and lavender.

whether they might ultimately share the fate of Joe Camel, the cartoon figure used to promote Camel cigarettes that was phased out amid allegations that it was meant to entice children to smoke.

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Traditional relationships between farmers and llama herders also are frayed. The United nations not entirely blind to the complications of world food markets

<a href=http://www. livescience. com/27503-camels. html>Camels</a can down 30 gallons (113 liters) of water

The water is stored in the camel bloodstream while the fatty hump   Rather than being stored in its fatty hump serves as a source of nourishment

#Camels May be Link to Deadly MERS Virus A potential source of the newmiddle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus has been identified:

camels may be a carrier of the virus according to a new study. Blood tests of 50 dromedary (one hump) camels in Oman a country in the Arabian peninsula found that all had developed antibodies against the MERS virus a sign that the camels may have been infected in the past with the MERS virus

or a very similar one the researchers said. However the actual virus was not found in the animals. oethese new results suggest that dromedary camels may be one reservoir of the virus that is causing MERS infection in humans the study researchers from National Institute for Public health

and the Environment in Bilthoven The netherlands said in a statement. oedromedary camels are a popular animal species in the middle East where they are used for racing

and also for meat and milk so there are different types of contact of humans with these animals that could lead to transmission of a virus the researchers said.

The study did not find MERS antibodies in blood samples taken from closely related animals such as alpacas and llamas in The netherlands and Chile.

However humans do not have much direct contact with bats so another animal such as camels

The study cannot prove that humans caught the virus from camels. Before researchers can confirm that camels are a source of MERS future studies are needed to identify the actual virus in camels

and compare it to the MERS virus the researchers said. The study is published in today's (Aug 9) issue of the journal The Lancet Infectious diseases.

Skittish in the grasslands Elbroch said this unique behavior primarily occurs in the open grasslands where the animal's favorite prey the guanaco a large animal in the camel family are most plentiful.

Full-grown guanacos weigh about 250 pounds (113 kg. I believe this is the first study to quantify how much meat is lost

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Animals'Dazzling Headgear Like camels giraffes can go for a long time without drinking water because their diet especially acacia leaves their favorite food contains a lot of water.

Giraffes look a little like a cross between a camel and a leopard: They have a small hump on their back and a spotted coat.

People used to call the giraffe a camel-leopard and that's how the giraffe got its species name camelopardalis.

#MERS Virus Found in Camels Camels are carriers of the new Middle east respiratory syndrome (MERS) virus according to a new study.

The researchers used genetic sequencing methods to identify a strain of the MERS virus in camels on a Qatar farm where two people caught the disease.

The virus found in the camels was very similar but not identical to the MERS virus seen in people.

The study provides definitive proof that camels can be infected with MERS-Cov the researchers said using the official name of the virus

. However the study cannot prove that people caught the virus from camels. It's possible that humans gave the virus to the camels

or that both humans and camels were infected by an unidentified third source the researchers said.

Previously the researchers found that camels had developed antibodies against the MERS virus. So far health officials have reported 163 human cases of MERS including 71 people who died.

#Mesa verde: Cliff Dwellings of the Anasazi The Mesa verde archaeological region located in the American Southwest was the home of a pueblo people who during the 13th century A d. constructed entire villages in the sides of cliffs.

Other mammals that thrived during this period include moonrats tenrecs (hedgehog-like creatures) and macrauchenia (similar to a llamas and camels.

#Why Do Camels Have Humps? Contrary to popular belief the camel s humps are not full of water.

Instead these odd protrusions are mounds of fat allowing the gangly beast to travel days through the desert without stopping for a bite to eat.

A camel can carry up to 80 pounds of fat on its back (Baby camels don t get their humps until they start eating solid food.

When a camel consumes the emergency food supply the hump will shrink and fall to one side.

Meantime a camel can drink up to 20 gallons of water at a time if there is any water around.

#Camels: Facts, Types & Pictures Camels are mammals with long legs a big-lipped snout and a humped back.

Camels'humps consist of stored fat which they can metabolize when food and water is scarce.

In addition to their humps camels have other ways to adapt to their environment. They have a third clear eyelid that protects their eyes from blowing sand.

Two rows of long lashes also protect their eyes. Sand up the nose can be a problem but not for camels.

They can shut their nostrils during sand storms. Humans have used camels as a means of transport for thousands of years.

They can carry about 500 pounds on their backs earning these beasts of burden a nickname ships of the desert.

Domestic camels are often the main source of meat milk and even leather or wool products.

Size Most camels tower above humans. A Bactrian camel according to the San diego Zoo grows to a shoulder height of 6 feet (1. 8 meters)

600 to 1000 kilograms) when they are fully grown. Dromedary camels get up to about 6. 5 feet (2 m) tall at the shoulder

what they eat. Their thick lips allow them to eat things that most other animals couldn't such as thorny plants.

Camels are herbivores though so you won't find them eating meat. Filling up on water when it's available is very important for camels.

They can drink 30 gallons (113 liters) of water in just 13 minutes. Their bodies rehydrate faster than any other mammal.

When there is little food and water the camel's hump fat releases water; 9. 3 grams of fat releases 1. 13 grams of water according to research by the University of Singapore.

Camels can survive up to six months without food or water. Offspring After a gestation of 12 to 14 months a mother camel will find a private spot to have her young.

Female camels usually only have one baby but sometimes camels have twins. The newborn is able to walk within 30 minutes though the two won't rejoin the herd until around two weeks later.

Camels become fully mature when they are 7 years old. Habitat The two types of camel are found in different parts of the world.

The Bactrian camel lives in Central asia. No matter the type camels are usually found in the desert prairie or steppe.

Though many people think that camels only live in hot climates they do well in temperature ranges from 20 degrees F (minus 29 degrees C) to 120 degrees F (49 degrees C

). Habits Camels like to stay together in groups called herds. The herds are led by a dominant male while many of the other males form their own herd called a bachelor herd.

Camels are very social and like to greet each other by blowing in each other's faces. Classification/taxonomy Dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius) and the domestic Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) were named in 1758 by Swedish zoologist Carl Linnaeus who only knew of the domestic variety.

Wild Bactrian camels (Camelus ferus) were discovered in 1878 by Nikolai Prejevalsky a Russian geographer who explored Mongolia and Tibet.

For many years the wild Bactrian was thought to be a subspecies of the domestic Bactrian.

However in recent years DNA analysis confirmed that C. ferus was a separate species the San diego Zoo says on its website.

The main difference between the two species is that the wild Bactrian has three more chromosome pairs than the domestic Bactrian.

Conservation status The wild Bactrian camel is considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources.

In fact wild camels are one of the most endangered large mammals. According to the Wild Camel Protection Foundation there are only approximately 600 wild camels in China and 800 in Mongolia.

Other facts Camels have been domesticated for 3000 years according to the San diego Zoo and used for transportation meat fur leather and milk.

Camels can run at 25 mph (40 kph) for long periods. If their owner is in a hurry they can kick their speed up to 40 mph (67 kph.

The camel's hump is like a storage container. When camels use their stored fat their hump will diminish.

When they eat and drink again the hump will refill with fat. Camels have shaped oval red blood cells that help continue blood flow during times

when water is scarce. Camels are known for spitting on people. In fact the animals are throwing up the contents of their stomach along with spit.

This is a defense tactic when the animals feel threatened. The large beasts make a variety of moans groans and deep throaty bellows.

One of the camel's noises was used even to voice the character Chewbacca in the Star wars movies.

#'Smart'Garden Morphs to Reflect Moods of Visitors A high-tech garden that can change the way it looks

and alter other parts of its environment depending on the reactions of people on Twitter has been created in the United kingdom. This futuristic social media garden could one day inspire the development of smart buildings that adapt to people's emotional states researchers say.

The experimental digital garden is part of the STAN (Science Technology Architecture Networks) research project at the University of Lincoln in the United kingdom. The project is designed to explore

#The route remains in use today though now railroads have replaced camels as the preferred means of travel.

MP cz Shutterstock. com) Camel Crickets These basement-dwelling insects also known as cave crickets or sprickets often startle homeowners with their spiky legs and frenzied jumping.

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and overhunting might have driven the decline of large herbivores such as elephants giraffes and native camels

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and toxins',including camel, goat and sheep pox viruses. The report was a response to an executive order from US President Barack Obama last year.

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by adding an antibody to fight rotavirus originally found in llamas in the rice genome.

Originally found in llamas, arp1 is ideal for oral immunotherapy as it is not readily digested by the acids in the human stomach, according to Iturriza-Gomara.

Llamas produce single-chain antibodies which have two important properties: one, they are very small

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#MERS Virus May be Able To Spread Through The Air Research strongly suggests that camels carry Middle east Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) a viral illness that has sickened nearly 700

For this reason the government of Saudi arabia recently warned people to stay away from close contact with camels at least those that appear to be sick

which prompted some to defiantly post photos of themselves kissing camels on various social media sites.

A study published in the journal mbio found the virus in an air sample taken from a camel barn near Jeddah Saudi arabia.

The genetic signature of the virus was identical to that found in the sick camels and the owner who came down with MERS a week after administering a topical medicine to his camels'runny noses.

The owner later died from MERS. The clear message here is that detection of airborne MERS molecules

which were 100 percent identical with the viral genomic sequence detected from a camel actively shedding the virus in the same barn on the same day warrants further investigations

They only found the virus one of the days the same day that one of the camels tested positive for MERS.

In response an international research team suggests eight ways to make ruminant agriculture aising cows goats sheep buffalo camels llamas reindeer and yaks for meat and dairy nvironmentally sustainable.

Typical diseases in this respect are foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) African horse sickness (AHS) lumpy skin disease (LSD) and camel pox.

Melesse isolated several types of AHS virus and also studied the occurrence of camel pox

which has serious repercussions in the main camel-breeding areas of Ethiopia. Melesse's doctoral research has provided us with valuable information about virus types disease distribution in relation to season and geographical region and the economic significance and risk factors for FMD LSD AHS and camel

pox in Ethiopia. Using his findings vaccine-based control strategies can be implemented which may lead to the country becoming more self-sufficient in food.

The United states created stronger regulations for tobacco advertising in the 1990s after similar research found that six year olds were as familiar with Camel tobacco's Joe Camel mascot as with the Disney Channel's Mickey mouse.

The study finds that as pastoralists expand goat herds to increase profits for the cashmere trade in Western markets wildlife icons from the Tibetan Plateau to Mongolia suffer--including endangered snow leopard wild yak chiru saiga Bactrian camel

and Mongolia the vast highlands and open spaces that once were populated by wild camel and wild yak Przewalski's horse chiru saiga antelope Tibetan gazelle kiang khulan and snow leopard are increasingly dominated by domestic goats and other livestock.

The researchers suspect that a MERS-Cov in camels may have mutated two and half years ago allowing the virus to infect humans.

Societies in North africa and the Middle east have strong cultural connections to camels where there are a lot of activities that expose people to raw camel products--milk urine

#Asian camel crickets now common in U s. homeswith their long spiky legs and their propensity for eating anything including each other camel crickets are the stuff of nightmares.

And now research from North carolina State university finds that nonnative camel cricket species have spread into homes across the eastern United states. The good news is that camel crickets don't bite

whether they had camel crickets (also known as cave crickets) in their homes and if so to send in photos or mail in physical specimens.

The most common species reported by more than 90 percent of respondents was the greenhouse camel cricket (Diestrammena asynamora.

Instead the researchers found that it is now far more common than native camel crickets in and near homes east of the Mississippi.

though it's possible that the greenhouse camel cricket could be driving out native camel cricket species in homes Epps says.

They found large numbers of greenhouse camel crickets with higher numbers being found in the areas of the yards closest to homes.

if they find camel crickets in their homes. Because they are scavengers camel crickets may actually provide an important service in our basements

or garages eating the dead stuff that accumulates there says Dr. Holly Menninger director of public science in the Your Wild Life lab at NC State

We know remarkably little about these camel crickets such as their biology or how they interact with other species Menninger says.

Recent research on the domestication of donkeys camelids (which includes dromedaries Bactrian camels llamas and alpacas) pigs cattle sheep and goats suggests that neither intentional breeding nor genetic isolation were as significant as traditionally thought the scientists said.

Our findings show little control of breeding particularly of domestic females and indicate long-term gene flow

Even today in the Gobi researchers report that domestic camels sometimes join wild herds after becoming separated from their own.

Wild and domestic camels meet at shared oases and wild males also can become extremely aggressive

In the Andes Capriles said wild and domestic camelids have interbred in such complex ways that alpacas are maternally related to both wild vicunas

and guanacos and the same is true for llamas. Artificial selection was probably weakest and gene flow highest in the case of pack animals such as donkeys or camelids.

#Camels emit less methane than cows or sheepwhen digesting ruminants exhale methane. Their contribution to this global greenhouse gas is considerable.

So far the assumption had been that camels with similar digestion produce the same amount of the climate-damaging gas.

However researchers at the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich have shown now camels release less methane than ruminants.

They too have chambered multi forestomachs. They too regurgitate food from the forestomach in order to reduce it in size through renewed chewing.

That's why people assumed up to now that camels produce a similar amount of methane to ruminants.

in absolute terms camels release less methane than cows and sheep of comparable body size.

To calculate the proportion of methane produced different estimated values should be used for camels than those used for ruminants explains Marcus Clauss from the Vetsuisse Faculty of the University of Zurich.

Lower metabolism--less feed--less methanethe modified calculation of the methane budget may be important for those countries with lots of camels--like the dromedaries in the middle East and in Australia or the alpacas and llamas in various South american countries.

In cooperation with Zurich Zoo and private camel keepers scientists from the University of Zurich and ETH Zurich have measured methane production in three types of camelids.

The results show us that camels have a lower metabolism. Hence they need less feed

The lower metabolism of camels could explain why they thrive particularly in areas with a shortage of food--desert and barren mountain regions.

The distinct geographic patterns in which these variants were present correlate in many cases with historic human migrations mixing between populations as well as the spread of cattle camels or sheep.

And a variant G-13915 found at high frequencies in the Arabian peninsula and also present in northern Kenya and northern Sudan dates to roughly 5000 years ago around the time that archaeological evidence suggests that camels were domesticated in the region.

they re calling giraffes camels and camels giraffes. You can t blame them for that.