<<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