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Bactrian Camel
Camelus bactrianus
The two humps of a Bactrian camel are fat, not water — a strategic decision to store the body's insulation in two lumps on the back rather than spread beneath the skin, so that the rest of the body can radiate heat freely. A well-fed camel's humps stand firm; a starved one's flo…
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- Wild Bactrian camels can drink salty or brackish water, making them one of the few mammals able to survive in such harsh conditions.
- Wild Bactrian camels can drink water saltier than seawater, from slush and brackish springs that domestic camels refuse — a physiological limit no other large mammal is known to reach. A surviving wild population lives in the Lop Nur region of China, where nuclear weapons were tested for decades, and the camels persisted there in part because humans stayed away. Camels reabsorb moisture from their exhaled breath in the nasal passages, and their urine is concentrated to a syrup.
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