The Camel Is an American Animal, and Almost Nobody Knows It

💰 Support the channel: USDT TRC20: TBebXWjFeAJHfArVsJvt8N6Yv5rvn4GXP7 The camel is an American animal. The camel family appeared in North America about 44 million years ago, and for most of the time since then this continent was the only place on Earth where camels lived: rabbit-sized ancestors, gazelle camels in Nebraska, a giraffe camel eleven feet tall, and Camelops, whose bones still come out of the tar at La Brea. The Old World only got camels 6 to 7 million years ago, across the land bridge from Alaska. This video follows that animal all the way. A leg bone found on Ellesmere Island, about 800 miles from the North Pole, that suggests some of the camel's desert equipment was first built for Arctic winters. What is really in the hump, and why the popular correction about fat turning into water does not hold up. How a camel lets its body swing from 93°F to 105°F, recycles the water in its own breath and survives losing a quarter of its body weight. The strange antibodies in camel blood that became a new class of medicine. Then the part most Americans never heard: in 1856 the U.S. Army landed 34 camels in Texas, tested them along the corridor that Route 66 later followed, lost them to the Civil War, and left a few loose in the desert, where one became the Red Ghost of Arizona. Australia did the same thing and ended up with the largest free-roaming camel herd on the planet. 👍 Subscribe for a new wildlife documentary every week. #camel #camels #dromedary #bactriancamel #wildlife #wildlifedocumentary #animalfacts #naturedocumentary #uscamelcorps #americanhistory #fossils #iceage #arizona #texas #natureeducation