- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Chordata
- Class: Mammalia
- Order: Artiodactyla
- Family: Camelidae
- Genus: Camelus
- Species: dromedarius --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Description
A dromedary camel is a big animal with a lot of hair. A dromedary is the coolest desert animal! A dromedary can live on a little water. It can reach high vegetation. It is always in intense heat. Most camels are in captivity in Africa and Asia.
- The dromedary camel is one of the few animals that doesn't get eaten by other animals. Dromedary camels eat almost any vegatation they can find!
- This web chain may help you know what dromedary camels eat!
- A dromedary camel lives in a desert biom in Africa, Asia, Australia.
- A dromedary camel only needs a little amout of water, but can drink 33 gallons of water in 10 minutes.
- The length of a dromedary is about 3 meters
- The height is 1.8-2 meters
- They weight 400-600kg
- A dromedary camel body covering is hair.
- The name of it's young is a calf.
- The group (herd) of a dromedary is a feral herd.
- The dromedary is related to an alpaca and a llama.
- A dromedary is a herbivore which means it eats vegetation, almost any type it can find.
- There are no known predators that prey on the dromedary. I didn't know that!
- A dromedary defends itself by kicking and spitting.
- A dromedary has a symbiotic relationship with a sand flea. It is a parasitism relationship. The flea sucks blood out of the camel and gets energy. The camel can lose a good amount of energy and can get sick!
- A dromedary communicates by whistleing, humming, and spitting.
- An unusual behavior is that a dromedary won't get influenced by humans!
- A dromedary is not endangered or on the watch list, it is doing just fine.
Some sources of mine were:
http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Camelus_dromedarius.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dromedary
Desert animals by Jen Green.
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copyright in 2000
Camels Rule!!