animals that live in the desert
High temperatures, scorching sand, and a lack of plants and trees characterize the desert habitat.
It is inhabited only by Bedouins who have been able to adapt to its geographical nature and lack of natural resources, as well as animals that can adapt to the desert environment and lack of water and food, and it is inhabited only by Bedouins who have been able to adapt to its geographical nature and lack of natural resources, and it is inhabited only by Bedouins
who have been able to adapt to the harsh nature of life in it, and it is inhabited only by Bedouins who have Camels or camels, as well as a huge variety of insects, reptiles, spiders, and mice, are among the well-known desert creatures that can live in the desert, and information about camels will be presented in this page.
Camels
The camel is a wild mammal that lives in the deserts of Africa and Asia and is known as the "ship of the desert" because of its ability to adapt to the desert environment and bear thirst and lack of water for long periods of time, as well as its ability to walk on the desert sands with ease.
Camels have a medium-length tail, and their bodies are distinguished by the existence of a hump on their backs, which is a big amount of fat, and camels are classed into two categories based on their presence:
- The Arabian camel: is a single-humped camel that can be found in the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa.
- Camels with two hump: These camels are native to Central Asia.
Camels are also notable for their ability to seal their noses to keep sand out of their bodies. Camels have two rows of long eyelashes and two-toed hooves that are cushioned to endure the extreme heat of the sand during the day to protect their eyes from the sand during sandstorms. It also has a long, crooked neck, big lips, and flat teeth for crushing the herbs you eat, as it is one of the few animals that only eat herbs, and camels live for 15 to 50 years on average.
Camel mating
Camels reproduce via giving birth, and they do not have a mating season.
Male and female camels can mate at any time of year, and a female camel's gestation cycle is between 12 and 14 months, during which she gives birth to one foal at a time, or twins in unusual situations.
The mother camel raises her baby in a separate area from the rest of the herd, where she breastfeeds him from her milk. The calf is the name given to a young camel.
Within 30 minutes of birth, the newborn camel is able to stand and walk. Camels are fully adult and able to mate and reproduce at the age of seven years, and they prefer to live in a herd, which is led by a single male camel known as the leader, who leads the herd from one location to another, and camels are very social animals who greet each other by blowing their big lips into each other's faces.
Camels adapt to their surroundings.
Camels do not store water in their humps directly. Instead, they store fats that they burn and benefit from when they don't have access to water or herbs.
The size of the hump varies depending on how much fat is stored in it, and the camel can adapt to the desert climate extremely well, as can be shown. How to adjust phrases in the form of points to the environment:
- After going 10 days without drinking water and experiencing thirst, a camel can drink 200 liters of water in three minutes, and its red blood cells adapt to be oval in the form to endure strong osmotic pressure when drinking water without being torn.
- Camels do not sweat, and any perspiration that does form can evaporate spontaneously when the temperature is 49 degrees Celsius.
- Maintaining brain temperature by losing as little fluid as possible and containing a set of veins and arteries close together that cool the brain by using the opposing flow of blood.
- Water vapor is retained in a camel's nostrils as it breathes, and it is reabsorbed by the body to preserve water.
- Camel's hair lightens in the summer, helping to reflect the sun's heat and preventing sunburn.
- The presence of long legs assists in keeping the camel's body away from the ground, allowing it to be less harmed by hot temperatures.
- Camels have a thick leathery lining in their teeth that aids them in chewing and eating thorny desert plants.
Camels are extremely important to humans.
Camels are one of the few
animals on which mankind has relied heavily since the dawn of humanity.
The Bedouin man's economy was entirely reliant on camel milk and meat production; camel hair was even used to manufacture cloth for clothes and hair dwellings, and camels assisted humans in moving by allowing them to ride them from one location to another.
This has contributed to an increase in people's culture, awareness, and self-reliance, as well as their keen interest in camels, which they mentioned in their poems and sang about in songs about their abundance and endurance, and even camels were mentioned in the Holy Qur'an, with His Almighty saying – "Do they not look at camels, how can they be?"
Its significance to people has not diminished in current times.
It was utilized in commerce by humans. The caravan was made up entirely of camels, which could carry products and bear their large weights.
It was an essential means of moving travelers and goods between countries in Asia and Africa, as well as the key economic pillar in those regions.
The countries through which cities grew, trade flourished, and the financial prosperity of their owners expanded, as did their access to very remote locations.
Camels are still important and influential in some local economies today, and they are bred in abundance.
They were utilized in camel races in the late twentieth century, especially in the Arabian Peninsula, because of their meat, milk, and even their skins.
