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  Dromedary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) is a large even-toed ungulate native to northern Africa and western Asia, and is the best-known member of the camel family.
Dromedaries are also noted for their thick eyelashes and small, hairy ears.
Modern domesticated dromedaries are used for milk and meat and as beasts of burden for cargo and passengers.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dromedary   (654 words)

  
 Dromedary, Arabian camel
Dromedaries can glean much of their needed water from desert vegetation, and can survive after losing over 40 percent of their body weight in water.
The dromedary, or one-humped camel, was described by Linnaeus in 1758.
Dromedaries were also introduced into the southwestern United States in the middle of the 19th century for both transportation and meat, but due to the building of the railroads, the experiment was declared useless.
www.ultimateungulate.com /Artiodactyla/Camelus_dromedarius.html   (802 words)

  
 Case Study
Confrontations among dromedaries include pushing each other with their whole body or lowered head and neck; snapping at each other without biting; and occasionally vomiting cud when they are hurt or excited.
The dromedary camel is used as a beast of burden by humans and also provides humans with milk, meat, wool, leather, and fuel from dried manure.
Dromedary husbandry is increasing today, and is being recognized as an ecologically-sound method of producing protein rich food in drought-stricken areas (Phoenix Zoo 1995).
www.american.edu /projects/mandala/TED/camel.htm   (2930 words)

  
 The Living Desert - Arabian Camel
Dromedaries were first domesticated in Arabia sometime between 4000 and 2000 BC and spread to Egypt and North Africa, later to East Africa and India.
Dromedary camels in Africa are generally maintained in a semi-wild state in which they forage alone but depend on man for water.
Dromedary camels are invaluable beast of burden, but are especially valued for their meat, wool, and milk.
www.livingdesert.org /animals/arabian_camel.asp   (516 words)

  
 Dromedary Peak Trip Report
Dromedary Peak is among the highest and most rugged peaks in the Wasatch.
Look to Dromedary, the high bump to the west (you'll see Sunrise Peak, higher, behind it, and the even higher east Twin Peak behind that).
I would say Dromedary is one of the tougher peaks I've done, but not as tough as it's neighbor Sunrise.
www.micksmtn.20m.com /dromedary.html   (958 words)

  
 Camel | Animal Facts | Chaffee Zoological Gardens of Fresno   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Dromedary camels are perfectly adapted for desert life.
Dromedary camels are important as beasts of burden but are also valued for their meat, wool, and milk.
The milk produced by camels is often the main source of nourishment for the desert nomads of the western Sahara.
www.chaffeezoo.org /animals/camel.html   (701 words)

  
 BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Dromedary camel, Arabian camel, one-humped camel
Dromedaries have a cream to brown or fl short-haired coat, which is longer on the head, neck, throat, rump and tail.
Dromedaries feed on a variety of wild plants that many other animals avoid, such as dry vegetation, thorns and salty plants.
Dromedaries are extinct in the wild, and exist as domestic animals, although some have turned feral.
www.bbc.co.uk /nature/wildfacts/factfiles/3036.shtml   (416 words)

  
 Ladywildlife's Dromedary Camel Page
The dromedary camel has been domesticated for so long that there are no records of its life as a wild animal.
Characteristics: The dromedary camel is well adapted to cope with the extreme climate and harsh terrain of the desert.
The dromedary is something's known as the "ship of the desert." This is partly because of its rolling walk, but also because it is the main transportation for crossing the desert.
ladywildlife.com /animal/dromedarycamel.html   (795 words)

  
 Dromedary, Artifact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
As a teenager playing in Irish/Appalachian circles, he came across a type of dulcimer that is believed to have made it from the old world to the Appalachian mountains in as early as the 18th century.
Having established a common ground in their joy for playing music as a community event, Dromedary's two versatile musicians have merged their respective styles into a one-humped fusion that is not easy to classify.
Also in the four remaining tracks Dromedary's instrumental versatility continues to pay tribute to the marvels of music inherited from both the Old and the New World.
www.rambles.net /dromedary_art01.html   (767 words)

  
 Creative Loafing Atlanta | EARSHOT | DROMEDARY HOLDS WATER
But for Athens duo Dromedary, it was moving away from Georgia (at least temporarily) that proved to be the greatest inspiration.
Performing on the traditional instruments and incorporating the regional styles of the Andes, Northern Africa, Eastern Europe and Appalachia, dromedary draws on the experiences the two had with the music of these distant and distinct cultures.
The close proximity the two have had to these musical traditions is evident in the delicate, personal dynamic of their compositions.
atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2002-04-17/earshot3.html   (294 words)

  
 SummitPost - Mt. Dromedary -- Climbing, Hiking & Mountaineering
Dromedary Peak is a rugged, seldom-visited peak in the Wasatch range and offers solitude from the crowds climbing the more popularTwin Peaks to the west.
Dromedary offers a Class 3 experience similar to it's neighbors Sunrise and Twin Peaks.
The route to Dromedary and Sunrise¡¦s east ridge turns left (east.) Dromedary can be climbed from either the Dromedary/Sunrise saddle along the west ridge or from the east ridge and the Blanche Fork ridge.
www.summitpost.org /mountain/rock/150269/mt-dromedary.html   (931 words)

  
 ANIMAL Teachers: Warm-Blooded Ones: Dromedary!One Humped Camel
Dromedary Camel is well adapted for extreme climates and harsh terrains.
Dromedary Camel’s hump stores fat for times when food is scarce.
Dromedary Camel teaches the value of saying No. He is willing to help people except when He believes that He will get hurt.
www.funkman.org /animal/mammal/dromedarycamel.html   (268 words)

  
 Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure
Dromedary camels were domesticated by 1800 B.C. In fact, some experts believe they could have been domesticated by as early as 4000 B.C. Camels were important in the development of the nomadic culture and trade routes in the Sahara Desert.
Today, the dromedary camel occurs only as a domesticated animal, except for a feral population of about 25,000 camels that were imported to Australia in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
The dromedary camel is a domesticated animal, so populations are stable.
www.rollinghillswildlife.com /animals/c/cameldromedary   (354 words)

  
 CD Baby: DROMEDARY: Artifact
Dromedary began playing as a duo with no professional ambitions in mind back in the last century (1998).
Jonathan Byrd and Dromedary's collaborative album The Sea and the Sky (2003) -- called a "masterpiece" by multiple reviewers and deejays -- landed Dromedary on stage in some of the world's finest folk venues and festivals in Texas, California, New England, as well as Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
Dromedary Quartet takes Dromedary -- some would say -- to the "next level" as some of Dromedary's latent compositions and musical ideas (that were impossible to pull off as a duo) come to the forefront in the context of the Quartet.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/dromedary1   (693 words)

  
 "Information resources on old world camels: Arabian and Bactrian 1962-2003"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Descriptors: 35 dromedary camel fetuses, prenatal nose anatomy, anatomy study of various ages, structure of dorsal, middle and ventral nasal conchae, spiral lamellae, size of recesses and sinuses, surface epithelium.
Descriptors: dromedary camel, adult animals, circulatory pattern, blood vessels, arteries, angiography of hip joint, source is deep femoral, medial circumflex femoral, caudal gluteal, lateral circumflex femoral and obturator arteries, obturator artery g ave off ramus acetabularis cranialis and ramus acetabularis caudalis, medial circumflex femoral artery issued the ramus acetabularis, anastomosis around the joint.
Descriptors: dromedary camels, genetic diversity, breeds, alleles, genes, heterozygosity, 14 microsatellites loci, phylogenetics, Kenyan breeds, Pakistan and Arabian Peninsula breeds, 2 separate Kenyan breeds, Somali, the Gabbra, Rendille and Turkana population as a group.
www.nal.usda.gov /awic/pubs/Camels/camels.htm   (8910 words)

  
 Splendid Magazine reviews Dromedary: Artifact
At a time when the word "diversity" has begun to lose its luster, Dromedary proves that their first effort isn't just zeitgeist.
Dromedary is the product of two very distinct and very different young musicians who play so seamlessly that telling them apart is almost impossible.
The instrumentation is unique: Andrew Reissiger plays a charango (an Andean folk instrument which is like a small, five double-stringed guitar, usually made from a armadillo shell) and Rob McMaken plays mandolin and cümbüs (pronounced "joom-bush", it is a Turkish, long-necked, fretless instrument with stretched skin over a metal bowl).
www.splendidezine.com /review.html?reviewid=321968237548392   (523 words)

  
 Dromedary Camels
Dromedary camels have only one hump and are native to Arabia.
One easy way to remember which is which is to remember a "D" (for dromedary) is made of only one "hump", while a "B" (for Bactrian) has two.
The desert-dwelling dromedary is often called the "ship of the desert" because of its ability to move across vast desert ranges with very little food or water.
www.blackpineanimalpark.com /Animals/camels.htm   (290 words)

  
 ANIMAL BYTES - Dromedary Camel
The dromedary camel is capable of drinking 100 L (30 gal.) of water in just 10 minutes.
Unlike most mammals, a healthy camel's body temperature fluctuates throughout the day from 34°C-41.7°C (93°F-107°F.) This fluctuation is important because it allows the camel to conserve water by not sweating as the environmental temperature rises.
In Africa and Arabia it is a semi-domesticated animal that free ranges but is under the control of herders.
www.seaworld.org /animal-info/animal-bytes/animalia/eumetazoa/coelomates/deuterostomes/chordata/craniata/mammalia/artiodactyla/dromedary-camel.htm   (293 words)

  
 Breeds of Livestock - Arvana Dromedary Camels
The possibility that dromedaries were independently domesticated in Turkmenistan and in Arabia 5000-6000 years ago cannot be excluded.
Arvana dromedaries are reared in all parts of Turkmenistan, as well as in Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and southern districts of Kazakhstan.
They are also found in Turkey, northern Iran and Afghanistan, where they may have been introduced by the Turkmen migrants in the 12th century during the conquest of these countries by the Seljuks.
www.ansi.okstate.edu /breeds/other/camel/arvana   (589 words)

  
 indieville: review: dromedary - live from the make believe
Sure, a lot of this album's songs are covers and traditional tunes, but that's all part of the fun.
Extremely listenable and infinitely rewarding, Dromedary's Live from the Make Believe is an album that can be enjoyed by anyone.
Despite the instrumental nature of the songs, there is enough melody and class on this disc to please even the most impatient listener.
www.indieville.com /reviews/dromedary2.htm   (225 words)

  
 Dromedary Returns
Described as “A gorgeous globe trotting musical experience,” Dromedary is one of the South’s busiest and most well known world music acts, having been in California, Texas, Colorado and the Northeast this summer playing festivals.
Their compositions and improvisations continue to inspire music fans from all over the map, as they put their own worldly twists on bluegrass, klezmer, fado, jazz, and even Radiohead tunes using charango, mandolin, cumbus, dulcimer, and guitar.
A Dromedary show will take you around the world: in and out of the plazas of South America, the streets of Eastern Europe, and the late-night Fado clubs of Portugal.
www.instanttheatre.org /pr33.htm   (324 words)

  
 indieville: review: dromedary - artifact
Dromedary is comprised of guitarists Andrew Reissiger and Rob McMaken.
Its sound does work as a background, it's true, but it is in the foreground that Artifact really becomes a truly rewarding work.
Go out and check this album out; Dromedary are on the verge of becoming a powerful force on the scene, you might as well get used to them.
www.indieville.com /reviews/dromedary.htm   (282 words)

  
 Dromedary Awards competition deadline nears
For the 2001 Dromedary Awards competition, Temple editors have until April 6 to submit two issues of their newspapers, magazines or newsletters published between May 2000 and April 2001.
If the trend of the past five to six years holds up, the number of publications that will be entered in the upcoming 13th annual Dromedary Awards competition is expected to exceed one hundred.
The upswing in journalistic excellence has been especially noticeable in the past several years of the Dromedary Awards competition, as the list of first-time winners in all categories is increasing from year to year.
www.shrinershq.org /shrinersonly/prforum/spring01/dromedary2-01.html   (398 words)

  
 FamilyFun: Wildlife Finder: Dromedary Camel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The dromedary thrives in conditions that would kill other mammals.
A dromedary can survive months without water, but when water is available, it drinks up to 35 gallons at a time to replenish lost body fluids.
Non-camel species in the Camelidae family include the llama and alpaca, which are both domesticated.
familyfun.go.com /parenting/learn/activities/feature/dromedarycamel_wlf/dromedarycamel_wlf.html   (212 words)

  
 PR Forum: Dromedary Awards
The Ninth Annual Dromedary Award Temple publication competition is fast approaching.
In 1996, a record 128 Temples entered the competition, and six of the year's Dromedary Award recipients were first-time winners.
The Dromedary Awards are held each year to recognize the best Temple publications throughout Shrinedom, and winners are selected by a panel of non-Shrine public relations profesionals in the Tampa Bay area.
www.shrinershq.org /shrinersonly/prforum/winter96/dromedary.html   (113 words)

  
 Baby Camels, Bactrian and Dromedary Camel Photos
Here we have Bactrian camels, Dromedary camels and F1 Hybrid camels, some of the cutest on the internet.
This is Gabriel, he is a two week old dromedary baby.
White Bactrian camels are even more scarce than white Dromedary camels, and these white baby camels will bring a high price.
camelphotos.com /BabyCamelsP1.html   (441 words)

  
 Medieval Bestiary : Dromedary
The dromedary is a small camel that can travel a hundred Roman miles a day
The dromedary is a kind of camel, but smaller and swifter than the usual kind.
Isidore of Seville [7th century CE] (Etymologies, Book 12, 1:36): The dromedary is a kind of camel; it is smaller but faster than ordinary camels.
bestiary.ca /beasts/beast209.htm   (99 words)

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