Archive for the 'camel' Category
This is the camel that has two humps on its back. Its name comes from the ancient country of Bactrian, North East of Iran.
Camels usually make one think of deserts and palm trees in scorching heat, but the true home of the Bactrian camel is on the bleak and arid plains of central Asia where [...]
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On the hot, sandy wastes of Saudi Arabia and the neighboring countries the one humped Arabian camel, or dromedary, is a familiar sight, for it is a marvelously adapted to life on the deserts where it must often go for days without food or water.
The “ship of the desert,” as it is fancifully called, has [...]
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In the days of our grandmothers, a popular kind of cloth was known as “alpaca.” It was warm and light and lasted a long time. Its name came from the animal whose wool was used in its manufacture – the alpaca of the high plateaus of Bolivia and Peru.
The alpaca is not a wild animal, [...]
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