camel
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"I can see my camels suffering from extreme heat," Ali Umer, a camel herder from Semera in Afar, told the BBC.
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
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
They tinkered with his crossovers and his camel spin.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026
The camel had a limp, louse-bitten quality, with its head hung low.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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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
Today there are more than 800–roughly the population of Tapanuli orangutans or wild Bactrian camels, but it’s too late to change metaphors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
For the next 49,000 years, the sticky pits captured virtually everything that fell or walked onto them, from grains of pollen borne by the wind to hapless ancient camels and Columbian mammoths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026
Mountainous piles of cages wobbled on the camels behind him.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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Africa - Introductory
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