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A camel's hump stores fat, not water
Burning the fat also releases water as a by-product Concentrating fat in one place rather than insulating the whole body helps the animal lose heat. Camels can lose a quarter of their body water and still function, then drink 100 litres at once. Their oval red blood cells tolerate that dilution. It sits in Mondo's animals collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A camel's hump stores fat, not water: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- Burning the fat also releases water as a by-product. The figure is taken from Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a animals fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Animals shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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