At one point in history, a famous Chinese Taoist philosopher who was the founder of Taoism, and whom was named Lao Tzu said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” This quote is very compatible with the journey of a camel. The journey of a camel can consist of 20 miles at a pace of 3 mph in a desert without water in one day, and it is made up of many steps. What makes these animals so capable of traveling in the desert? Camels were originated in North America, but they later were
The Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus) is a large, even-toed ungulate native to the steppes of Central Asia. Of the two species of camel, it is by far the rarer. The Bactrian camel has two humps on its back, in contrast to the single-humped dromedary camel. Its population of two million exists mainly in the domesticated form. Some authorities, notably the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), use the binomial name Camelus ferus for the wild Bactrian camel and reserve Camelus bactrianus
The Atacama Desert Abstract Exclusive of the largest mountain ranges and oceans, earth’s most well-known physical features are its great desert regions. The word desert often conjures up ideas of open expanses of sand and towering dunes blown by perpetual wind and dust storms. Moreover, deserts are often categorized as being strictly sandy, hot, and extremely dry. Only part of this assumption is correct. Furthermore, the categorizing of deserts as such illustrates how little knowledge many people
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Ancient South American Foodways Domestication of plants and animals has long been indicated as a main causational factor for population increase and socio-political complexity. Evidence of domestication of plants in South America has been said of have initially occurred 8000 BC, evidence of squash in Ecuador (Pearsall 2008:107), and 500 years earlier lima beans and chili peppers are being exploited (Lynch 1983:125-6). However, it took several millennia for intensive manipulation of plants to become
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within human and veterinary medicine; three notably virulent infectious diseases of the veterinary world are bluetongue virus, equine strangles and bovine tuberculosis (Goodhead, 2012). Bluetongue virus (BTV) is an infectious disease of ruminants and camelids causing respiratory distress, loss of muscle condition, death in newborn lambs and reduced infertility (Caporale & Giovannini, 2010). The virus is transmitted through Culicoide biting midges and therefore this explains the vast, global spread of
God began His greatest work of creation. When God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground"(Genesis 1:26). As with the story of Adam and Eve in the Hebrew Bible, their goal was to define the moral principles that people thought should govern their dealing with the supernatural world, with each other, and with the rest of nature
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), an endangered species is any organism, plant or animal that is at a high risk of extinction in the wild. But when extraneous forces act on a species, they begin to slide into extinction. There are several ways for a species to decline in number, but the most influential factor is the pressures placed on organisms due to human development and expansion. The rapid growth of the human population has had detrimental effects on the
The native peoples of the new world faced numerous hardships when people from the western half of the world immigrated to north, central, and south America. The Araucanian peoples of south-central Chile was no exception. Like other native groups in the Americas, they faced harsh labor systems, disease, and colonization by European powers. However, unlike the others, the Araucanian peoples, also known today as the Mapuche, were able to successfully fend off against foreign invaders. How did the Araucanians
This paper discusses the development of a civilization defining its ten characteristics it will define why this civilization developed. For this purpose, the civilization of the Incas from South America has been selected; however, this paper will focus on a particular people of this civilization that lived in Machu Picchu. The civilization of the Incas lived on the territory of South America, in an area now occupied by the modern Peru. The capital has been located in the city of Cuzco. The name "Inca"
Placental Ruminants and Herbivorous Marsupials of Australia The marsupial animal species that have evolved on the isolated continent of Australia are unique compared to the rest of the animal kingdom in many ways due to the harsh and distinctive environment found on the continent. The major area of marsupial biology that distinguishes them from all other eutherian mammals is their mode of reproduction. However, it can be said that there are many other areas in which unique differences can