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CAMEL HAIR

Camel hair is the name given to brushes made of the hair from squirrel's tails. Camel hair brushes are very soft, and when wet have no springiness at all, making them useless to artists, but valuable for glass work and the application of gold leaf.
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COITUS A CHEVAL

Coitus a Cheval is the practice of having sexual intercourse while riding a horse, and less often am camel or elephant. The rocking rhythm of the moving animal provides the participants with enhanced arousal and sensation. The term is also used to describe the pony girl fantasy.
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DOMESTIC ANIMALS

Domestic Animals are animals such as are reared and kept by man, and are to some extent in a tame state; as the dog, cat, cow, sheep, pigs, horse, donkey, elephant, camel, llama, reindeer, etc.
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ASPALATHUS

Originally, aspalathus was a popular name for the Middle Eastern camel-thorn (Alhagi camelorum), or similar fragrant shrubs. Now, the name is used to describe the evergreen thorny leguminous shrubs of the African genus
Aspalathus.
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BACTRIAN CAMEL

The Bactrian Camel (Camelus bactrianus) is the Asian species of camel. It is a two-humped camel once commonly found in Asia, but now endangered and only found in parts of Mongolia and China. The Bactarian Camel has been domesticated for use as pack animals, and also a source of milk and wool, and their manure.
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CAMEL

The camel is a group of two species of even-toed, ungulate ruminating mammals of the family Camelidae characterised by the absence of horns, the possession of incisor, canine and molar teeth, a fissure in the upper lip, a long and arched neck, one or two humps or protuberances on the back (the Arabian camel has one hump, the Common, Asian or Bactrian Camel, two), and a broad elastic foot which does not readily sink into the sand of the desert.

The native country of the camel is said to extend from Marocco to China, within a zone of 900 or 1000 miles in breadth. The common camel (Camelus Bactridnus), having two humps, is only found in the northern part of this region, and exclusively from the ancient Bactria, now Turkestan, to China. The dromedary, or Single-hump camel (Camelus dromedarius), or Arabian camel, is
found throughout the entire length of this zone, on its southern side, as far as Africa and India. The Bactrian species is the larger, more robust, and more fitted for carrying heavy burdens. The dromedary has been called the race-horse of its species. To people residing in the vicinity of the great deserts the camel is an invaluable mode of conveyance. It will travel three days under a load and five days under a rider without drinking. The stronger varieties carry from 700 to 1000 Lbs. burden.

The camel's power of enduring thirst is partly due to the peculiar structure of its stomach, to which are attached little pouches or water-cells, capable of straining off and storing up water for future use, when journeying across the desert. It can live on little food, and of the coarsest kind, leaves of trees, nettles, shrubs, twigs, etc. In this it is helped by the fact that its humps are mere accumulations of fat (the back-bone of the animal being quite straight) and form a store upon which the system can draw when the outside supply is defective. Hence the camel-driver who is about to start on a journey takes care to see that the humps of his animal present a full and healthy appearance. Camels which carry heavy burdens will do about 25 miles a day, those which are used for speed alone, from 60 to 90 miles a day.

The camel is rather passive than docile, showing less intelligent co-operation with its master than the horse or elephant; but it is very vindictive when injured. It lives from forty to fifty years. Its flesh is esteemed by the nomadic Arab and its milk is his common food. The hair of the camel serves in the East for making cloth for tents, carpets and wearing apparel. It is imported into European countries for the manufacture of fine pencils for painting and for other purposes. The South American members of the family Camelidae constitute the genus Auchenia, to which the llama and alpaca belong; they have no humps.
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CAMELOPARD

Camelopard was a name once (originally by the Romans) given to the giraffe, in the mistaken belief that the creature was a cross between a camel and a leopard.
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DAMANI

The Damani is a thin tail, mutton and wool breed of sheep which is found in the Dera Ismail Khan district and part of Bannu district in NWF Province of Pakistan. They are small to medium with a white body coat with a black or tan head and camel coloured legs. They have small ears. The udder and teats are well developed.
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DROMEDARY

A dromedary is a type of Arabian camel.
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GADFLY

Gadfly is a name commonly applied to various insects, a large number of which belong to the great Linnaean genus OEstrus, while others belong to the genus Tabanus. OEstrus bovis or ox gadfly (the Hypoderma bovis of some naturalists) is about 7 lines in length with a yellow thorax, with a black band; white abdomen; fulvous terminal segments and dusky wings. This species attacks the horse also, the female depositing her eggs in the skin of these animals in considerable numbers. In a short time the eggs are matured, and produce a larva or worm, which immediately pierces the skin, raising large lumps or tumours filled with pus, upon which the larva feeds.

Oestrus equi (the Gastrophilus or Gastrus equi of some naturalists) deposits its eggs upon such parts of the skin of horses as are subject to be much licked by the animal, and thus they are conveyed to the stomach, where the heat speedily hatches the larvae, well known under the name of botts.

Oestrus ovis (also called Cephalomyia ovis) deposits its eggs in the nostrils of sheep, where the larva is hatched, and immediately ascends into the frontal sinuses, attaching itself very firmly to the lining membrane by means of two strong hooks situated at its mouth. Other species infest the buffalo, camel, stag, etc. Even rhinoceroses and elephants are said not to be altogether exempt from their attacks.

The characteristics of the genus Tabanus are two enormous eyes, usually of a greenish-yellow colour rayed or spotted with purple, antennas scarcely longer than the head, the last joint with five divisions. These insects suck the blood of horned cattle, horses, and sometimes people. The Tabanus bovinus, or larger gadfly is common in Europe. It is about 25 mm long, brown above and grey below. Its larva live on the ground, and its metamorphosis takes place under the earth but close to the surface.
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