camel
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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
Without management, camel populations could double every eight years, South Australia's primary industries department says.
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
It rumbles and undulates across the floor, like a lonely camel enduring across a windswept desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Also, just so we're clear—my parents didn't travel around town on a camel.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
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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
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
More than 10,000 camels were imported into Australia from 1840, many of them released into the wild with the development of railways and then the arrival of motor vehicles in the 1920s.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
"Perhaps it's the camels you're smelling. The Qartheen themselves seem sweet enough to my nose."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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Africa - Introductory
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