Nature's Greatest Achievement
Over thousands of years, evolution pushes one species towards ultimate fitness.
What arises is a flawless specimen perfectly adapted to its environment.
I give you...
The Camel
Water Efficiency
Camels only go through about 44 ounces of water per day, whereas most livestock such as cattle lose around 1000 ounces per day. If large mammals were 25 mpg cars, the camel cruiser would get 568 mpg.
- Camels can drink as seldom as once every 10 days even under very hot conditions
- Camels can lose up to 30% of their body mass due to dehydration
- Camels reabsorb the moisture in the air they exhale via hair in their nostrils
- Camels get water from the plants the eat. Some camels have gone 6 months without drinking at all
Camel urine comes out as a thick syrup, and camel poop is so dry that they can be used to fuel fires.
In case you missed that:
Flammable.
Turds.
Sit or Stand
Camels sit with their bodies elevated above the ground
Padded camel hooves make it easy for them to walk on sand
Body Temperature Swings
A camel's body temperature can be 93 degrees F in the morning and 104 in the evening. On the human scale that's like starting the morning at "barely alive" and ending the day at "high fever."
Chugging Champs
Camels can guzzle up to 18 gallons of water in a single minute when thirsty
Diet
Desert plants evolved thorns to prevent anything from eating them. Camels said "too bad" and evolved mouths and throats so tough cactus became spiky snack.
Seriously look at this. It's straight out of a Ridley Scott movie.
Blood
Oh and in case their throats weren't weird enough, their blood cells are a DIFFERENT SHAPE!
The camel's oval shaped cells (left) help blood flow in to arteries that constrict during dehydration. Human blood cells are shown on the right.
Side note:
The way these antibodies are produced is wild. First they inject a substance they want to study into a camel, llama, or shark, then the animal starts producing antibodies that bind to that substance, then they take the animal's blood, extract the DNA, then inject it into some bacteria such as yeast cultures to mass produce the antibodies.
Antibodies
| Camelids, along with sharks, produce unique antibodies that are used to research and potentially treat a wide variety of illnesses. Their smaller antibodies can fit into more places than big human ones. |
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Speed
Camels can run up to 40 mph and are raced all over the world.
In Saudi Arabia some races have prizes of over $2 million. One racing camel even sold for $9.5 million dollars.
The jockeys for these races are robots.
Silk road
Camels were the primary means of transportation on the silk road, rapidly increasing the spread of human knowledge and directly leading to the industrial revolution.
What does this all mean?
Let's go over what we have established:
- Camels are absurdly tolerant of hot, desert climates
- Camels have unique blood and antibodies (alien biology?)
- Camels are now working directly with robots
- Camels have been directly influencing the course of humanity's economic and technological progress
The worst effects of global warming camels call "Tuesday"
The Truth
There's only one logical conclusion:
The camels have been guiding human progress for millennium, using us as mere tools to manipulate the world's ecosystem so they can expand their habitat.
Now you know the horrible truth of the camelluminati...
