camel

The Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia is one of the hottest and driest places on Earth, where nomads often lead camel caravans carrying salt through the desert.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Mine is a shade of camel that my haberdasher insists on calling “whiskey.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Now, estimates of the wild camel population range from 300,000 to a million animals.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

Among the video’s more surreal moments are depictions of Trump riding a camel through the desert, traveling through India on a motorcycle, appearing as an anime-style warrior and sharing tacos with world leaders.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

Samir took a few halfhearted steps in chase, but the camel surprised everyone with its sudden vigor.

From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri

She rode camels in Egypt, cruised the Nile River and hugged the pillars at Stonehenge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

Obviously, clambering up and down the dangerously steep pass, ferrying goods on horseback or by mule or — for a few wacky, experimental months in the mid-1850s, Army camels — wasn’t workable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

Experts say camels comfortably beat the heat up to around 40C by mainly allowing their body temperature to fluctuate by several degrees throughout the day to deal with outside temperature.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Trainer Kyrraley Woodhouse, who started camel racing professionally in 2013, said most of his camels had been taken from the wild to run in the Marree event, which drew more than a dozen competitors.

From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026

Poppy always included camels in his childhood stories and folk tales, but they’d mostly vanished from this land since then.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye