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The camel has always been an enigmatic beast, and only now scientific research has shown that the camel does not store water in his hump. That is an old wives’ tale. 1 _______. It seems that muscles and other tissues act as a kind of reservoir that can provide several litres of water if needed. 2 _______. At the end of that period he had lost 202 pounds, but made it all up in ten minutes by drinking 16 gallons of water when they let him near an oasis.
3 _______. He never pants, never breathes with his mouth open even in the hottest weather in the Sahara. And he perspires so little that his skin always feels completely dry. He allows his body temperature to rise 11˚F above the normal, while his thick coat of fur keeps out the heat of the desert. The Arabs with their thick cloaks have obviously learnt from their beast of burden. 4 _______.
Nor does he store the water in his several stomachs, or in his bloodstream.
There is the sad report of one poor camel that was kept without water in the course of research for seventeen days.
Another interesting discovery about the camel is the fact that his secret is to keep his mouth always tightly shut.
He provides an important example of an animal’s adjustment to his environmental conditions.
