Me and the Camel photo by Andrew Baker
Let me say that the camel is such a clever animal because , he or she can remember anyone and anything , let alone rememberig ways in the desert that men or even GPS or advanced navigators would not be able to find, they care alot about their children and they have done alot for humanity carrying heavy things in africa asia australia and everywhere else .
Allah in the Quran mentioned the camel saying: "Do not they look at the camel, how it is created?"
We will see beauty and pefection of the camel , so let me state some of the attributes of this amazing creature , just to mention other wise there are details that are amazing :
- Head sheltered from the sand; the eye lashes of the camel are designed like two separate combs clamping together. In case of danger, they are automatically closed. With this special design, even a single grain of sand is not let into the eye. Nose and ears are covered with long hairs for protection from sand and dust. Its long neck enables the animal to reach and feed on the leaves, which are 3 meters high from the ground.
- Knees are covered with a structure called "callus", which is composed of skin as hard and thick as horn. When the animal lays down on the hot sands
- the hump of the camel forms is a mass of fats, and provides nutriment to the animal periodically in times of starvation. With this system, this animal can live 3 weeks without water, whilst it looses 33% of its weight.
- Camels can live without food and water for 8 days under temperatures of 50° C. During this period, it looses 22% of its body weight. However, it can survive even if it looses 40% of the water in its body, whilst loosing just 12% would cause a man's death.
Me Huging the baby Camel. for these reasons and others the camel is well appreciated in the Moroccan culture and the Arab culture in general , that people should reflect upon the beauty of the camel as well as other beautiful and amazing animals and try our best to treat them well because they are so beautiful and they have feelings as well.
- Camels can consume 130 liters of water almost in 10 minutes. This amount is approximately one third of their body weight. Besides, camels also have a mucus structure in their nose, which is 100 times larger in area than the man's. Every time the animal breathes, air is moisturized by the mucus. When we breathe, we lose 16 mg of water vapor for every litre of air. However, with the structure of the mucus, camels can get use of the moisture in the air in a ratio of 66%.
The Camel in our culture.
