Animals

Camels

DESCRIPTION: Woolly coat, caramel in color thatoften looks shaggy from seasonal shedding. Both sexes have a single hump on theback.
FUN FACTS:

Thedromedary camel is capable of drinking 100 L (30 gal.) of water in just 10 minutes.
Camels store fat in the hump, notwater! In fact baby camels are born without a hump because the layer of fatdoes not develop until they eat solid food.

Unlike most mammals, a healthy camel'sbody temperature fluctuates throughout the day from 34C-41.7C (93F-107F.) This fluctuation isimportant because it allows the camel to conserve water by not sweating as theenvironmental temperature rises.

Thedromedary camel is no longer considered a wild animal. In Africa and Arabia it is a semi-domesticated animal that free rangesbut is under the control of herders.

Cats

Why do Cats Eyes Glow in the Dark?

Cats movearound at night, so they must be able to see in the dark. Where humans cannothing at all, cats can still see. A cat’s eye take in the tiniest bit oflight. Inside the eye the light is reflected backward and forward. That is thereason that their eyes glow brightly in the dark. The pupilof cats’ eye change to control the amount of light that enters the eye. Theynarrow to tiny slits in bright sunlight but widen to large orbs when it isdark. That is why cats see so well in the dark. In addition there is an areabehind the retina that reflects light, and that is why cats’ eye appear to glowin the dark.

Colobus

DESCRIPTION: A small monkey with a U-shaped mantleof long white fur that descends from its shoulders and around its back. Whitefur surrounds their black face

FUN FACTS:

Baby colobus' are born completely white.

Ruminant-like digestive system hasenabled leaf-eaters, such as colobus', to occupy niches that are inaccessibleto other primates.

They live in territorial groups ofapproximately nine individuals, based upon a single male with a number offemale and their offspring.

The Old Worldmonkeys of the subfamily Colobinae have a specially adapted stomach that issacculated and supports bacterial colonies. These bacteria make it possible fordigestion of cellulose in their diet of leaves, unripe fruit, and seeds.

There are documented cases of"allo" mothering, which means members of the troop other than theinfant's biological mother care for it.

The differences between monkeys andapes are easy to see once you know what to look for. Apes do not have a tailand are generally larger than most other primates. They have a more uprightbody posture as well. Apes rely more on vision than on smell and have a shortbroad nose rather than a snout, as Old Worldmonkeys do.

OldWorld monkeys are generally from Africa and Asia while New World monkeys arefrom the Americas.In Old World monkeys, the nostrils facedownward and are narrow. New World monkeyshave round nostrils facing to the side. Old World primates are usually largerthan New World's. Many of the Old World monkeys are partly terrestrial.

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