The finds suggest that the massive dromedary—or single-humped camel—was hunted by prehistoric people, the researchers add. From Wordnik.com. [Camels the size of freakin' elephants!!!!] Reference
Thomas DiFonzo/The Wall Street Journal Chariot, a single-humped camel with spittle hanging from his lips and pompoms in his tail, won the pageant. From Wordnik.com. [Here He Comes, Mr. Camel] Reference
SELCUK, Turkey — Chariot, a 1,500-pound, single-humped camel with spittle hanging from his lips and pompoms in his tail, just won the first-ever beauty contest at Turkey's annual camel fighting competition. From Wordnik.com. [What's a Bigger Draw Than a Camel Fight? A Camel Beauty Contest, of Course] Reference
The race will feature a combination of single-humped dromedary camels and bactrians, which have two humps. From Wordnik.com. [EDP24 News]
It is not certain that we know the originally wild form of either of the two species, the double-humped or single-humped camels. From Wordnik.com. [Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization] Reference
China's Shenzhen-based BGI -- formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute -- more than one year to decode the entire genetic makeup of the single-humped camel, Camelus dromedarius, the omnipresent native of the Arabian peninsula. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
The Arabian single-humped camel, or dromedary, has been carried to the Canary Islands, partially introduced into Australia, Greece, Spain, and even Tuscany, experimented upon to little purpose in Venezuela, and finally imported by the. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
The Arabian single-humped camel, or dromedary, has been carried to the Canary Islands, partially introduced into Australia, Greece, Spain, and even Tuscany, experimented upon to little purpose in Venezuela, and finally imported by the American Government into Texas and New Mexico, where it finds the climate and the vegetable products best suited to its wants, and promises to become a very useful agent in the promotion of the special civilization for which those regions are adapted. From Wordnik.com. [Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical)] Reference
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