True Facts: How Camels Conquered the Desert
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Credits:
Dr. Bernard Faye, French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development
Dr. Ursula Windberger, Medical University Vienna
Dr. Manouk Abkarian, University of Montpellier
Duke SMIF (Shared Materials Instrumentation Facility)
Shanna Baker / Tula Foundation
Hakai Magazine, https://hakaimagazine.com/features/where-camels-take-to-the-sea/
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eClinPath.com / Cornell University
Jan Hoogland, https://www.flickr.com/photos/janhoogland/32608476900
Red Sun Camels, https://www.redsuncamels.com.au/
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@zefrank
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
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@kevinross8038
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
It’s teva not teava. Hebrew.
@Mmm-r2i4q
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
No it’s pretty good reception before it was like nam flashbacks but now it’s like updated way less interference.
@rabidkoalaz
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
The scene where that where the camel was eating that cactus was painful to watch. I know that the camel is probably having a good time, but still, those thorns looked so painful to chew up and swallow. Nature is so amazing.
@chasewilliams4788
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Okay, now we need a mouse deer vodeo. Way WAY too cute
@河村正-b2j
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Camel is beautiful.
@realdie5
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
this man funny
@nickywebb3241
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Like a wedgie of the hip 🤣🤣
@Avellere
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
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@Msheatherwhatever
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
The dune reference made my day today.
@opensky664
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
"Allahumma a'inni ala zikrika wa shukrika wa husni ibadatika,"
Allahumma inni as'aluka 'ilman nafi'an, wa rizqan tayyiban, wa 'amalan mutaqabbalan
@Booptherattie
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
So how did u discover your calling in life was slicing camel noses into cross section slices ?
Oh right gum tree ad !
Of course that makes sense 😊
@SomethingWittyIdk
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
They just kept walking into the desert until everything worked out. I respect that
@tgreaux5027
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
GERTIE IS A CAMEL AND CAMELS LOVE TO DANCE! EVERYONE KNOWS THAT! Hecklefish sends his regards, Frank.
@erdenkalilayev3877
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
the way narrator is narrating is entertaining as hell
@mahmoudramadan1618
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
I can’t believe that there are smart people who still believe in evolution nonsense after it got destroyed by true science 😢
@assimilationsynthesizer
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
oblong
@WeakBambi
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
I used to think camels where cool before this video, the longer I watch this, the uglier they look lmao
@fulltimestudent1
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
3:15 I've recently seen a video of Hank Green having a breakdown after realizing the following:
Fat is assembled from sugar, so it's mostly hydrocarbons. There are oxygen molecules in the air. When camels burn fat through aerobic respiration, for every molecule of glucose that's burned, six water molecules are made. So camels are storing the lighter ingredients (hydrogen) of water in the air, and heavier ingredient of water (oxygen) in the air for free, and make water on the fly as they make energy. It's more efficient than if they were carrying actual liquid water in their humps.
@slickceretto9760
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Jake died so others would not die
@hillliscom8599
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Fun Fact: They've found crocodile skeletons hundreds of miles west of the Nile Valley. There had been water out there until maybe 50,000y ago.
@bradfromthevalley
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
I think he has been skiiing before…
from google
Major snowy regions in Africa are:
Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) …
Mount Kenya (Kenya) …
The Atlas Mountains (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia. …
Drakensberg Mountains (South Africa and Lesotho) …
Simien Mountains (Ethiopia) …
Rwenzori Mountains (Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo)
@tur461er5
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Were camels like this from their origin ? Please support with logic and evidence what you respond with!
@MrsSapphicGirl
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Surprised you didn't bring up the camel's two sets of eyelashes
@supadankiwigames
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
8:05 hummingbird beak
@MishaVargas
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
You've got the name of Peter Ndung'u spelled wrong in the description.
@christinagay3354
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
"We die dead"
@Steeve4557
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
Throw it at who?
@jakenkid
December 25, 2025 at 11:57 pm
I hope you get to the part about how camels produce 1.1x as much water as they store in fat. So although they don't actually store water, they actually store water, for every 1lb of fat, the convert it to 1.1lb of water. Super neat.
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