Why do camels have humps, and is there actually water in them? How do camels survive in the desert with that hairy coat? What's special about camel blood, and camel urine? Learn all about the dromedary on this episode of Species.
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to pretend creationism is true for a moment, and you're going to play creator. |
| 0:06.8 | Design an animal to survive in the desert. Go on. Imagine what type of animal would be best able to live in one of terrestrial Earth's most uninhabitable habitats. |
| 0:20.1 | What traits would you give them? How would they look What traits would you give them? |
| 0:22.7 | How would they look? |
| 0:23.8 | How would you prepare them to survive in an environment |
| 0:27.2 | where 100 degrees Fahrenheit is a rather nice, brisk day? |
| 0:35.2 | You probably wouldn't give them a hairy coat, right? Surely that would be a major liability. |
| 0:41.7 | And you probably wouldn't make them fat either. To stay cool, you'd probably want them to be slim, right? |
| 0:48.5 | Well, today we're going to talk about an animal that is not only hairy, but they're one of the fattest animals on earth. |
| 0:55.8 | And they are able not to survive in the desert despite these traits, but to thrive in the desert |
| 1:03.8 | because of them. And as we'll get into, these traits are only two of many. This animal, though they |
| 1:10.7 | don't look it, is more |
| 1:12.4 | prepared to take the heat than almost any other. The Dramadary, the largest and most abundant |
| 1:20.0 | species of camel on earth. Camelus Dramidarius. I'm Mackin. This is species. |
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