Very informative. This is one of the most fascinating, awesome things
I've ever read about an animal. You will be utterly amazed and I hope
you take the time to read it.
The Amazing Camel
Meet the Very Technical, Highly Engineered Dromedary Camel. When I'm
hungry, I'll eat almost anything- A leather bridle, a piece of rope,
my master's tent, or a pair of shoes. My mouth is so tough a thorny
cactus doesn't bother it. I love to chow down grass and other plants
that grow here on the Arabian Desert. I'm a dromedary camel, the
one-hump kind that lives on hot deserts in the Middle East.
My hump, all eighty pounds of it, is filled with fat-my body fuel --
not water as some people believe. NATURE gave it to me because NATURE
knew that I wouldn't always be able to find food as I travel across
the hot sands. When I don't find any chow, my body automatically takes
fat from the hump, feeds my system, and keeps me going strong. This is
my emergency food supply. If I can't find any plants to munch, my body
uses up my hump. When the hump gets smaller, it starts to tip to one
side. But when I get to a nice oasis and begin to eat again, my hump
soon builds back to normal.
I've been known to drink twenty-seven gallons of water in ten minutes.
NATURE made me in such a fantastic way that in a matter of minutes all
the water I've swallowed travels to the billions of microscopic cells
that make up my flesh. Naturally, the water I swallow first goes into
my stomach. There thirsty blood vessels absorb and carry it to every
part of my body. Scientists have tested my stomach and found it empty,
Ten minutes after I've drunk twenty gallons. In an eight hour day, I
can carry a four hundred pound load a hundred miles across a hot, dry
desert and not stop once for a drink or something to eat.
In fact, I've been known to go eight days without a drink, but then I
look like a wreck. I lose 227 pounds, my ribs show through my skin,
and I look terribly skinny. But I feel great! I look thin because the
billions of cells lose their water. Normally my blood contains 94
percent water, just like yours. But when I can't find any water to
drink, the heat of the sun gradually robs a little water out of my
blood. Scientists have found that my blood can lose up to 40 percent
of its water, and I'm still healthy.
Doctor's say human blood has to stay very close to 94 percent water.
If you lose 5 percent of it, you can't see anymore; 10 percent, you
can't hear and you go insane; 12 percent, your blood is as thick as
molasses and your heart can't pump the thick stuff. It stops, and
you're dead. But that's not true with me. Why? Scientists say my blood
is different. My red cells are elongated. Yours are round.
Maybe that's what makes the difference. This proves I'm designed for
the desert, or the desert is designed for me. Did you ever hear of a
design without a Designer?
After I find a water hole, I'll drink for about ten minutes, and my
skinny body starts to change almost immediately. In that short time my
body fills out nicely, I don't look skinny anymore, and I gain back
the 227 pounds I lost. Even though I lose a lot of water on the
desert, my body conserves it too.
Way in the beginning when NATURE made me, He gave me a specially
designed nose that saves water. When I exhale, I don't lose much. My
nose traps that warm, moist air from my lungs and absorbs it in my
nasal membranes. Tiny blood vessels in those membranes take that back
into my blood. How's that for a recycling system? Pretty cool, isn't
it. It works because my nose is cool. My cool nose changes that warm
moisture in the air from my lungs into water. But how does my nose get
cool? I breathe in hot dry desert air, and it goes through my wet
nasal passages. This produces a cooling effect, and my nose stays as
much as 18 degrees cooler than the rest of my body.
I love to travel the beautiful sand dunes. It's really quite easy,
because NATURE gave me specially engineered sand shoes for feet. My
hooves are wide, and they get even wider when I step on them. Each
foot has two long, bony toes with tough, leathery skin between my
soles, my feet are a little like webbed feet. They won't let me sink
into the soft, drifting sand. This is good, because often my master
wants me to carry him one hundred miles across the desert in just one
day. (I troop about ten miles per hour.)
Sometimes a big windstorm comes out of nowhere, bringing flying sand
with it. NATURE put special muscles in my nostrils that close the
openings, keeping sand out of my nose but still allowing me enough air
to breathe. My eyelashes arch down over my eyes like screens, keeping
the sand and sun out but still letting me see clearly. If a grain of
sand slips through and gets in my eyes, NATURE took care of that too.
NATURE gave me an inner eyelid that automatically wipes the sand off
my eyeball just like a windshield wiper.
Some people think I'm conceited because I always walk around with my
head held high and my nose in the air. But that's just because of the
way I'm made. My eyebrows are so thick and bushy I have to hold my
head high to peek out from underneath them. I'm glad I have them
though. They shade my eyes from the bright sun. Desert people depend
on me for many things. Not only am I their best form of
transportation, but I'm also their grocery store. Mrs. Camel gives
very rich milk that people make into butter and cheese. I shed my
thick fur coat once a year, and that can be woven into cloth. A few
young camels are used for beef, but I don't like to talk about that.
For a long time we camels have been called the "ships of the desert"
because of the way we sway from side to side when we trot. Some of our
riders get seasick. I sway from side to side because of the way my
legs work. Both legs on one side move forward at the same time,
elevating that side. My "left, right left, right" motion makes my
rider feel like he is in a rocking chair going sideways.
When I was six months old, Special knee pads started to grow on my
front legs, for NATURE knew I had to have them. They help me lower my
1000 pounds to the ground. If I didn't have them, my knees would soon
become sore and infected, and I could never lie down. I'd die of
exhaustion. By the way, I don't get thick knee pads because I fall on
my knees. I fall on my knees because I already have these tough pads.
NATURE thought of me and knew I needed them. He designed them into my
genes. It's real difficult for me to understand, how I evolved into
what I now am now? I'm very technical, highly engineered, dromedary
camel. Things like me don't just happen.
BUT WHAT I REALLY CANNOT FATHOM IS WHY GOD CREATED SUCH AN
EXTRAORDINARY SUPER ANIMAL LIKE ME BUT FORGOT TO REMOVE THE SHIT FROM
THE BRAINS OF MY HUMAN MASTERS IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!!!!!
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