Camels Crudely Chew their Cud
A camel doesn’t chew its food well
caring little about taste or smell
With 3 stomachs there’s no lack
of having room for food to pack
When hungry they just regurgitate
to satisfy their hunger state
Well-known gourmands and not gourmets
finding dietary delight in tents and hay*
- “I think she’s obviously a Camel Connoisseur”
- “I think she’s gone too long without water”
- “I don’t know what to think”
Where to Next is the BEST travel blog. Peggy and her husband John travel to the most interesting places. LeggyPeggy’s post about traveling by camel in Rajasthan India is my inspiration for the “C“-word! Here’s an excerpt (Ya gotta read the whole post Where to Next and see the pictures):
“Poor John is never keen on riding animals. Horses are out. Bull-riding is out. Emus and ostriches are out. Donkeys are marginally okay because, as he says, it’s not that far to fall off a donkey.”
“So you can imagine he wasn’t at all impressed when he realised that our travels in India included two days in the Thar Desert on CAMELS.”
“Oh, you should have heard him grumble and grumble and grumble. But he swallowed his complaints, mounted a camel and was heaved high into the air.”
- Some of Peggy & John’s guides and camels.
Read the post to get the full Camel experience Poor John survives two days on a Camel
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*“Camels can go for days or even weeks with little or no food or water. Desert people feed their camels dates, grass, and such grains as wheat and oats. In zoos, the animals eat hay and dry grains–about 3.5 kilograms of each every day. When a camel travels across the desert, food may be hard to find. The animal may have to live on dried leaves, seeds, and whatever desert plants it can find. A camel can eat a thorny twig without hurting its mouth. The lining of the mouth is so tough that the sharp thorns cannot push through the skin. If food is very scarce, a camel will eat anything–bones, fish, meat, leather, and even its owner’s tent.
A camel does not chew its food well before swallowing it. The animal’s stomach has three sections, one of which stores the poorly chewed food. This food, or cud, is later returned to the mouth in a ball-like glob, and the camel chews it. The chewed food is then swallowed and goes to the other parts of the stomach to be completely digested. Camels, deer, cattle, and other kinds of animals that digest their food in this way are called ruminants.” Camel Farms.com
This is fun! Thanks for armchair travel opportunity.
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Storytellermary,
http://leggypeggy.com/ IS a great travel blog – I’m glad to share.
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Ha. Love that first camel image. Best of luck with the A to Z Challenge. Cheers.
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Elen,
Thanks. We all need LUCK – thanks for an extra dose.
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Aw shucks, you are too kind. Thanks for the praise for and link to my travel blog. Camels are a great place to start.
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LeggyP
I’m not kind, I’m a connoisseur of camels and good blogs!
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And now I know more about camels than I ever thought I needed to know.
D is for dog? Dinosaur? Dragons? Hmmm….
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Jacqui,
One can never know toooooo much about camels – you never know when you might find yourself in the Sahara in need of transportation.
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Camels have three stomachs? I did not know that!
-Chrys Fey
Tremp’s Troops – A to Z Co-co-host
Write with Fey
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Chrys,
Sometimes I could use an extra stomach or too – especially during the holidays . . .
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Chrys,
Now that you know the next time you invite a camel for dinner you’ll have something to talk about.
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Very creative and fun way to learn about Camels. 🙂
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Jean,
Thanks! Coming from a writer that’s a nice compliment.
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I love camels. They are so unique, make great facial expressions, and kind of awe-inspiring. I too would be afraid to ride one because they are so large and it is VERY far to the ground. I’ve ridden horses so that’s about as high up as I go. I really enjoyed your blog! Thanks for sharing. Visiting from Blogging A to Z, http://www.dianeweidenbenner.com
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DianeW,
Thanks for stopping by and giving camels a bit of love. I think they have gotten bad press over the years! (Not sure I find them awe-inspiring but I do find them amusing! – but then again I’m sure they would find me amusing rather awe-inspiring too)
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Thank you for making learning about camels fun. You have a wonderful sense of humour and a knack for poetry. I enjoyed this post very much. 🙂
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Angelcat,
Thank your for the compliments and referring to my poetic expression as “knack”! I always imagine a lot of people rolling their eyes when they read my “creative expressions” (as I like to call them).
Hey everyone check out her new blog https://angelcatblog.wordpress.com/. She’s doing the A to Z challenge as her first steps into blogging. That’s what I call BRRRRRRRAVE.
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I didn’t know they had 3 stomachs. I thought they were bovine-like with a chambered stomach. Love learning new stuff.
I’ve ridden horses and bulls and elephants and donkeys, but I’ve never ridden a camel with one hump or even two.
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You’ve ridden BULLS!!!!! That beats Camel-acraphobia by a long shot
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