25/04/2024

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Heroes of the desert – or are they?

The recent ANZAC parade through Ipswich featured a very special animal…man’s other best friend, the camel. Some points about these amazing creatures….. One of the camel’s most notable physical traits is its hump or humps. While the dromedary camel has one hump, the Bactrian camel has two humps. The myth is / was that water was in these humps was full of life-giving water….. In truth, they store fat in these humps, which later can be used as an energy...