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From what country do piebald camels come from?
Here is a photo of a baby piebald camel:
http://camelphotos.com/pic3/paint.jpg

2006-09-03 05:25:01 · 1 answers · asked by Cameleer 2 in Education & Reference Trivia

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The photo correspond to a Dromedary because it has one-humped. It is call piebald, because it has more than one color (check in the photo the camel behind, it has only one color). Normaly a piebald dromedary is blotched with white and the other color ranges from deep brown to beige (the term piebald is an adjective that means different colors). The dromedary lives only in North Africa and Arabia.
FYI
The camel, known as the ancient ship of the desert. Geologically evolved in North America, migrated to Asia two million years ago across the Bering land bridge and were first domesticated 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.Today, there are two main types of camels, the two-humped camel known as the Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) and the Arabian one-humped camel known as the dromedary (camelus dromedarius). The dromedary lives only in North Africa and Arabia. Wild Bactrian camels live in northwestern China and Mongolia. Domesticated Bactrians can be found throughout Central Asia. Camels store fat in the hump, not water! In fact baby camels are born without a hump because the layer of fat does not develop until they eat solid food.
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2006-09-03 17:23:55 · answer #1 · answered by gospieler 7 · 0 0

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