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Camelus dromedarius
Sand coloured animal with a single hump. Lovely eyelashes if you get to look closely...protection during sandstorms.
It appeared quite suddenly by the side of the highway and I got a hurried shot through the car window.
Also called Arabian camel. Very hardworking. There are camel-drawn carts in use all over Gujarat; but this one appears to be a feral one. I had seen the double-humped Bactrian camel in Ladakh, India too: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/407...
Spotted on Dec 14, 2014
Submitted on Jan 8, 2015
7 Comments
Yup. I think once people start eating a wild species its days are numbered, BTW I spotted a runaway Emu in Gujarat...take a look: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/112...
Showing an Emu to an Australian...like carrying coal.... but still.
Very. I tried it once. It tasted very good... not as good as emu but better than crocodile. Are you envisaging a solution to our wild camel population problem? 8>] Camels are really destroying the outback (along with rabbits, pigs, cats etc.)
Mark...really! I did not know that....is camel meat edible?
I'd be grumpy too if my office made me work as hard as the owners make these camels do....I have not posted photos of the camel carts. Wouldn't mind borrowing those eyelashes though.
Nice spotting, Surkanya. They do have beautiful eyes (and lashes). They're grumpy though.
I didn't know that!
Did you know the only wild camel populations now are in Australia? ...and they're totally out of control.