After spending 3 1/2 years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 1995 to 1998, I can
assure you
that those beast smell like, look like, sound like, act like, walk like and feel
like a camel.

I saw more than enough of them to know that, no matter what the scientific world
wants
to call them ... they are camels to me. I also know to about 15 million Saudi's
they are
camels ;-)


Dirickson Steve wrote:

>         <<Now that's a new one on me. I thought that the single-humped
> beastie was in fact a camel, just a different species. Can you enlighten
> me/us?>>
>
> For reasons I don't know, the single-humped Arabian version, <Camelus
> dromedarius>, is called a "dromedary", while its two-humped Asiatic cousin
> <Camelus bactrianus> is called the "camel", or, more specifically, the
> "Bactrian camel" (which is confusing, since it didn't originate in Baktria).
>
> To further enhance confusion, the "dromedary" term is derived from the Greek
> "dromos", or "road" and is probably more appropriately applied only to the
> riding/racing dromedary; maybe the Russian/Siberian/other Asian people
> didn't race theirs? Damfino.
>
> Steve



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