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The Camel; His Organization, Habits and Uses
The Camel His Organization Habits and Uses Author:George Perkins Marsh General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1856 Original Publisher: Gould and Lincoln Subjects: Camels History / General Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Mammals Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Mammals Nature / Wildlife Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and ther... more »e may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. GENERAL ANATOMY THE HUMP THE HEAD, AND THE CALLOSITIES. The general anatomy of the camel is the same as that of other ruminants; but the hump, the horizontal posture of the head, the direction of the eye, the power of closing the nostril, the callosities upon the breast and legs, the spreading and cushioned feet, and above all the curious structure of the stomach, to which he owes his most valuable property, the power of long abstinence from water, distinguish him from all other quadrupeds. The following account of his general anatomical structure is abridged from the English Cyclopaedia, Natural History, vol. i. " The camels have thirty-four teeth; sixteen in the upper jaw ; namely, two incisors -- for the camels and the llamas have these, and form the exceptions, the other ruminants being without any incisors in the upper jaw -- two canines, twelve molars; eighteen in the lower jaw, namely, six incisors, two canines, and ten molars. There is another difference between the camels and other ruminants ; the former have the scaphoid and cuboid bones of the tarsus separated. Instead of the great horny case, or shoe, which envelops all the lower part of each toe, and determines the figure of the ordinary cloven hoof, the camels have only a small one, or rather the rudiment of one, adhering only to the last joint of the toe, and symmetrical in form, like the hoofs of the Pachydermata. These and other peculiarities of form...« less