RomanArmyTalk

This morning, about 11:30h a dromedary was born in the Museumpark Orientalis in the Netherlands, where I've been re-enacting for 8 years now.
It's the second one born in the museum (and in the Netherlands in general, as far as I know). So, now we have 5 of them

Lovely, ain't it?

This one I photographed in Iran. What is really amazing is that those little creatures can walk immediately after they're born!!!

Cuuuuuute!

Is that just another word for a camel, is this a different breed?

Pretty cool though. Gives me hope when animals are born in captivity that some of the endangered ones have a chance to be reintroduced into the wild.

Well, once some of the humans are removed anyway.

Gorgeous!- until they spit at you :lol:

One of my dad's cousins breeds camels in Australia.

Quote:Is that just another word for a camel, is this a different breed?

Pretty cool though. Gives me hope when animals are born in captivity that some of the endangered ones have a chance to be reintroduced into the wild.

Well, once some of the humans are removed anyway.

Matt, read your Livius.org!
www.livius.org/caa-can/camel/camel.html
(with thanks to Jona)

Now I always thought a dromedary was just another breed of camel!
Well, you learn something new every day

Quote:Now I always thought a dromedary was just another breed of camel!
Well, you learn something new every day

I always thought the dromedary was the male and the camel the female...

Cool, I didn't know that!

I seemed to have it the other way around. :? Is there not another name for the 2 humped camel?

Quote:Is there not another name for the 2 humped camel?

Camelus Bactrianus is the official name, as opposed to the Camelus Dromedarius. Aristotle was the first westerner to recognize the differences, which are immense:

A dromedary...
...comes from the hot deserts and the steppes of Arabia
...has one hump
...has long limbs
...has short hair, which protect against the heat
...is a swift runner

A camel...
...comes from Bactria, Sogdia, and the Gobi desert only, which have a land climate
...has two humps, which insulate it from heat loss
...has short limbs
...has short hair, which protect against the cold
...is useful as a transport animal

The confusion is created because in Semitic languages, the dromedary is called gamal (cf. "Gaugamela" = dromedary's back). The Greeks had two words for the dromedary: their own word, dromedarios, and a loan word, kamêlos. Aristotle was the first to use the second word for the two-humped animal; all languages have accepted the difference, but in English the difference appears to have been lost before the early twentieth century - witness the Camel cigarette box, which shows a dromedary.

That two-humped animals were not well-known in the west before the rise of Islam, means that the famous Jewish proverb that "It is easier for a kamêlos to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God" (Mark 10.25; Babylonian Talmud, Berakoth, 55b and Baba Mezi'a, 38b) refers to a dromedary, a biological fact that appears to have escaped almost every translator of the Bible.

I have never seen a representation of a camel in a collection of Greek or Roman art, except for one oil lamp in the museum of Worms.

MORE

Thanks, Jona, I had found that page, but I was wondering where I had the idea of another name....probably was 'bactrian camel, just the old memory playing up again, beeing offshore for three weeks does that to you... :lol:

Then again, I had always thought they were the same species, just a different variant! Live and learn.. 8)

Quote:Live and learn.. 8)

That's why we're here, at RAT. !: