Terms: camels
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1. Camels - Dromedary (Oakland Zoo)
   Provides facts, a picture and a movie. "Hump is a flesh mound not supported by bones. A reserve of fat (not water) is stored in the hump. Camels exhibit unusual tolerance for dehydration. Most animals perish when 20% of their body weight is lost. Camels survive a 40% loss of body weight without serious consequences."

2. Camels (Hanover Zoo)
   Provides an article and pictures. 12-04

3. Camels Worksheets (AbcTeach)
   Provides dozens of printable worksheets by theme. 8-01

4. Camels (A-Z Animals)
   "The bactrian camel is better known as being the type of camel with two humps. There are only two surviving species of camel remaining, the single humped camels from the Middle East and the bactrian (double humped) camel from Northern Asia." 01-09

5. -03-12-06 "There's Nothing to Eat...We Have Nothing" (TimesOnline.com)
   "Fetching water is women’s work in this part of the world. But in parched northern Kenya — where a two-year drought is threatening to plunge the country into famine and change for ever an age-old pastoral way of life — fetching water means begging at the side of the road."
   
   " 'The cows are finished, the goats are finished. We have no work, nothing. Even the camels are finished which means there can be little chance for us. Our only hope is the road.' " 03-06