National Geographic for Kids magazine presents a list of amazing and little-known facts about camels.

1: Dromedaries have one hump, which contains water. Bactrian camels have two humps, one containing water, the other containing detergent.

2: Camels are yellow-brown colour blind.

3: Their natural diet is nettles and gooseberries, plants not normally found in desert climates.

4: Their feet make them adept at climbing rope ladders.

5: They can lose all the water stored in their hump during one 30-second spitting fit.

6: The first thing every newborn camel does is to stand up and face north.

7: Camels are panicked by the sound of stylophones.

8: Throughout history, camels have always been known by their Arabic name, al-Klazari, until 1913, when they first appeared on the front of well-known brand of cigarette in the United States. The name has since caught on worldwide. This is why you will find no reference to camels in any literature prior to 1913.

9: During the rise of Feminism in the 1960s, the camel/wife exchange rate achieved parity.

10: Their generally bad temperament has earned them the nickname “the shits of the desert.”

11: Their eyelashes can grow to three feet in length and the diameter of a packet of extra-strong mints.

12: Arabs prefer to race camels because, unlike horses, they don’t cheat.

13: Italy does not recognize the camel as a species and so does not have any in its zoos.

14: Multiplying a dromedary’s age by the number of humps it has will tell you how old it is.

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