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What do camels store in their humps?

Fat.

Camel humps are not filled with water at all, but with fat, which is used as a reserve supply of energy. Water is distributed throughout the body of the animal, especially in the circulatory system, which allows camels to avoid dehydration for a long time.

Camels can lose up to 40 percent of their body weight before it starts to take a toll, and go without water for up to seven days. But when a camel sticks to a drinking bowl, it's really something - in one sitting, the "ship of the desert" is able to sip up to 225 liters.

Here are a number of very interesting facts about camels, but not related to their humps.

Even before the reputation of animals with a good memory was acquired by elephants, the ancient Greeks believed that camels never forget anything.

Persian greyhounds - Salukis - hunted camels. They lay on the camel's withers, looking out for deer, and noticing, they jumped down and rushed after their prey. Saluki is able to jump from a place to a height of up to 6 m.

In 1977, David Taylor, author of The Zoo Veterinarian, noted that

"Camels are like pressure cookers - they accumulate resentment in themselves until one day the lid blows off them, and that's when they get really furious."

The driver calms the raging camel by throwing him his robe.

"The animal suits clothes with a real scolding: it jumps from above, bites, tears it to shreds. When the camel feels that it has come off completely, peace and harmony come between the animal and the person, and they can again live in perfect harmony."

Today, camel racing in the United Arab Emirates uses robot jockeys instead of traditional child riders. Remote-controlled riders were specially created after the entry into force of the ban on the operation of riders under the age of sixteen, imposed by the UAE Camel Racing Association in March 2004.

Unfortunately, the new law is not always observed, resulting in a sharp increase in child trafficking: four-year-old boys are kidnapped in Pakistan and held in Bedouin settlements in the Arabian Peninsula. To become a camel rider, special talents are not required: it is enough to weigh a little and be able to yell at the top of your lungs (a cry drives camels).

The famous moral from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke that

"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God"

most likely a mistranslation from Aramaic, where the original word gamta ("strong rope") was simply confused with gamla ("camel").

In this form, the phrase makes much more sense - to the great consolation of our wealthy compatriots.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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There are about 150 different types of sharks, but while some of them are quite ferocious, it is surprising that most of them are completely harmless.

Sharks are different from other fish in many ways. For example, other fish have movable covers over their gills, while sharks just have slits in their skin. Their spine is made of cartilage, not bone. Another unusual feature of sharks is their teeth. Instead of regular teeth located in the jawbone, sharks have teeth that are arranged in several rows on the gums. The skin on which the denticles are located slowly grows, the row of teeth wears out and is replaced by another behind it.

The shark's mouth is located on the underside of the head. While under water, the fish eats without changing position. And in order to grab prey on the surface, she has to roll over onto her back.

Sharks range in size from 0,3 to 15 meters in length, as, for example, in the great whale shark. The most common species, they often follow ships and are usually so harmless that even other fish are not afraid of them.

However, there are at least two species of rather dangerous sharks. One of them is the tiger shark. She lives in tropical waters and weighs up to 270 kg. The tiger shark can swallow a sea lion and is known for attacking humans. But the most ferocious of all sharks is the great white shark. The length of some individuals can be 12 meters, and perhaps this is one of the strangest fish. They quite calmly, without hesitation, can eat a person and in one fell swoop, like a tiger shark, swallow a sea lion.

Strangely enough, the largest of the sharks is absolutely harmless. This is a whale shark. It can reach 15 meters in length and weigh 18 tons. Its food consists of tiny organisms known as plankton, its teeth, or denticles, are quite small - only 3 mm in height.

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