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Dromedaries (Camels)
Animal Domestications
Dromedaries, Wadi Rum, Jordan
Neil Carey
Dromedary camels (
Camelus dromedarius
) (the camel with one hump) are found in North Africa and the Near East. Dromedaries were probably domesticated in coastal settlements along the southern Arabian peninsula somewhere between 3000 and 2500 BC.
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