The Camel Essay

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The camel With evolution and changes in climate, every organism has to adapt in some way, to be able to survive in a certain environment. The organs and structures of an organism have to change in order to become suited with the environment. Looking at each organism individually, every organism has its own way to cope and change for survival. For example, the camel has to adapt specific organs and organ systems in order to be able to survive in the desert. How did evolution and natural selection change the camel’s mechanism and how did the camel physiologically evolve for live in the desert? The camel is a ruminant animal and lives in the desert of Asia and Northern Africa (Animalplanet, 2012). According to Naveen (2011), a camel’s life span is about 40 years, its weight is between 400-800 kilogram, and it stands more than two meters tall with a length of about three meters. The “Bactrian and Dromedary are the only two species of camels in the world” (Naveen, 2011). The Dromedary camel is also called the Arabian camel; the Arabian camel has one hump, whereas the Bactrian camel has two. Humans try to tame camels since ancient times and use both camel types for a variety of work such as “pull ploughs, turn water wheels to irrigate fields, and carry grain to market places” (Camelfarm, 2000-2005). Furthermore, humans use the fat that is stored in the camel’s hump to make butter and use the camel’s milk to drink or to make cheese. Both genders have nine main organs, but they differ from each gender: the male camel has a scrotum and testes, epididymis, ductus deferens, seminiferous tubules, the ampulla, the bulbo-urethral glands, prepuce and penis, and the prostate gland. The female camel has ovarian structures (corpus luteum, follicles), the ovary, the cervix, oviducts, the vagina and the vulva, and the uterus. The only animal that was able to survive when the rabbit

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