camel
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Rising heat and water shortages have also led to an increase in camel deaths during summer heatwaves in Algeria, a recent study revealed.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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
Lyra turned the hands to the camel, which meant Asia, which meant Tartars; to the cornucopia, for Kamchatka, where there were gold mines; and to the ant, which meant activity, which meant purpose and intention.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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Ortiz and six other spy-saboteurs, “their hands and faces already darkened by the unyielding sun, donned gandouras and turbans—what the famed T.E. Lawrence dubbed ‘Arab kit’—mounted a string of camels and rode south.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
In ancient California, they are believed to have existed alongside other extinct native species, including bison-sized Jefferson’s ground sloths, Columbian mammoths and western camels.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
She rode camels in Egypt, cruised the Nile River and hugged the pillars at Stonehenge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Professor Mohammed el Khasmi, animal hydrobiology expert at the University of Casablanca in Morocco, has a long list of effects of heat stress he and his team have observed on camels.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The domestic animals that were ridden were the horse, donkey, yak, reindeer, and Arabian and Bactrian camels.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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