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Species. † C. kansanus Leidy, 1854. † C. hesternus Leidy, 1873 ( type) † C. minidokae Hay, 1927. Camelops is an extinct genus of camel that lived in North and Central America, ranging from Alaska to Honduras, [ 1] from the middle Pliocene to the end of the Pleistocene. It is more closely related to living camels than to lamines ( llamas ...
Lama is a genus containing the extant South American camelids: the wild guanaco and vicuña and the domesticated llama, alpaca, and chilihueque. Before the Spanish conquest of the Americas, llamas, alpacas, and chilihueques were the only domesticated ungulates of the continent. They were kept not only for their value as beasts of burden, but ...
A camel (from Latin: camelus and Greek: κάμηλος ( kamēlos) from Ancient Semitic: gāmāl[ 7][ 8]) is an even-toed ungulate in the genus Camelus that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. Camels have long been domesticated and, as livestock, they provide food ( camel milk and meat) and textiles (fiber and felt ...
Edward Fitzgerald Beale. Edward Fitzgerald Beale (February 4, 1822 – April 22, 1893) was a national figure in the 19th-century United States. He was a naval officer, military general, explorer, frontiersman, Indian affairs superintendent, California rancher, diplomat, and friend of Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill Cody and Ulysses S. Grant.
Camelids are members of the biological family Camelidae, the only currently living family in the suborder Tylopoda. The seven extant members of this group are: dromedary camels, Bactrian camels, wild Bactrian camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and guanacos. Camelids are even-toed ungulates classified in the order Artiodactyla, along with ...
First commander. Major Henry C. Wayne. The United States Camel Corps was a mid-19th-century experiment by the United States Army in using camels as pack animals in the Southwestern United States. Although the camels proved to be hardy and well suited to travel through the region, the Army declined to adopt them for military use.
Most rodents are small, although the capybara can weigh up to 45 kg (99 lb). According to the IUCN listing, Mexico has more rodent species (236 as of April 2011) than any other country in the world (Brazil is second with 222). Of Mexico's rodents, 2% are caviomorphs, 14.5% are sciurids, 25.5% are castorimorphs and 58% are cricetids.
Arabian camel (national animal) Camelus dromedarius [59] South Africa: Springbok (national animal) Antidorcas marsupialis [60] Blue crane (national bird) Anthropoides paradiseus [61] Galjoen (national fish) Dichistius capensis [62] Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan junglefowl (national bird) Gallus lafayettii [63] Tanzania: Giraffe (national animal ...