The camel is superbly adapted for xeric conditions that is why it is rightly called the ‘ship of the desert’.
The following adaptations are found in camel :
- It uses its entire foot while walking and its hooves are covered by a large sole which helps it to move on hot, slippery sand.
- It has a hump on the back which is filled with fat. This stores food that is utilized during the time when the camel does not get anything to eat.
- It can drink as much as 50 litres of water in one gulp when water is available to it.
- It excretes very little water from its body.
- It passes nearly dry dung.
- It does not perspire.