What feed the camels in the desert?

Camels are a source of popular myths. It's true that can survive for weeks without water or food. But despite the popular belief that says so, the camel's hump is not filled with water but fat.

Something that characterizes their huge camel lips are not suitable for inveterate kissers. Such broad and tanned lips let them deal with the spines of almost any desert plant, so it can eat almost anything. Obviously the plants are scarce in the desert, and that's why camels are specially prepared to overcome the shortage, and taking full when what they find.

The digestive system helps a camel to squeeze the most of everything you can from infrequent meals. This makes digesting food several times in the three cameras is their stomach. And they are also prepared to absorb the most moisture from the plants they eat, so get water.

After all that eating, store it as fat in his hump. You can accumulate up to 36 kilos of fat on their backs. Then, as the camel is consuming these fats, if not get food, the hump is shrinking, even the loose skin falls to the side if they have eaten all the fat.

It is hard to see a baby camel hump, just beginning to accumulate when they ingest solid foods. Then again just to eat, a good night's sleep, and the hump is upright again.

Therefore it is not advisable to invite a camel to dinner, as it can get to drink 75 liters of water at once, without going to eat everything you have on hand without stopping.

Source LiveScience