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Camelus
bactrianus
Africa and Asia
Camels can travel great
distances across hot, dry deserts with little
food or water. They walk easily on soft sand
where trucks would get stuck, and carry
people and heavy loads to places that have no
roads. A camel carries a built-in food supply
on its back in the form of a hump. The hump
is a large lump of fat that provides energy
for the animal if food is scarce. Camels were
domesticated thousands of years ago by people
who lived in Arabia.
 
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