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Camelus dromedarius
The dromedary or Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius) is a large even-toed ungulate with one hump on its back.
This one is a domestic one, used to carry around tourists at the pyramids near Cairo.
It is one of the lucky few that had time to rest and get food beetween its work. Because of the riots, that started a few weeks after my parents were in Cairo, many of them starved as a result of the absence of tourists and their owners not able (or perhaps willing) to pay food for the now useless animals.
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