camel
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A study in Algeria, external, published this year, has shown a significant increase in camel deaths during summer heatwaves.
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
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
It’s a young Uzbek messenger, riding a Bactrian camel, wearing an old wide-brimmed hat.
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
"They get blisters on their feet, their eyes become watery and the hot sand burns their skin and eats up their hair when they are sitting," said the 40-year-old who owns around 500 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
It’s impossible to describe how tenderly I suddenly feel toward them—hyenas, camels, and all.
From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen
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