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A) Spanish officers B) Roman auxiliary forces C) Egyptian camel drivers D) Desert tribes and Mongolian nomads
A) Outer guard hairs and soft inner down B) Short fur and long mane hair C) Curly fleece and straight bristles D) Coarse wool and fine cotton
A) Saddle padding B) Military tent covers C) Decorative rugs D) Waterproof coats for herdsmen
A) 1200 BC B) 17th century onwards C) 21st century D) 19th century
A) 19th century B) 20th century C) 17th century D) 500 BC
A) 500 BC B) 7th century BC C) By at least 1200 BC D) 19th century
A) Using vocal commands B) By pulling nose rings C) By reins attached to a bit D) By means of a stick
A) During World War II B) By at least 1200 BC C) Between 500 and 100 BC D) In the 17th century
A) They were designed for a single rider without weights B) They were positioned exclusively to the back of the camel C) They were made entirely of soft wool and down D) They were inflexible and bent, and were put over the humps
A) Seventh century BC B) 19th century C) 1200 BC D) 20th century
A) The American Civil War in 1861 B) The Battle of Thymbra in 547 BC C) World War I in 1916 D) The Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC
A) Border Security Force (BSF) of India B) United States Army C) British Army D) French Armée d'Afrique
A) Tropas Nómadas B) Dromedarii C) Senussi D) Méhariste
A) Their ability to carry heavy artillery on their backs B) Their ability to scare off horses at close range due to their scent C) Their ability to run faster than horses over long distances D) Their natural armor protection against arrows
A) French B) Romans C) British D) Achaemenid Persians
A) 853 BC B) 547 BC C) 1861 D) 1200 BC
A) Algeria B) California C) Texas D) Berlin
A) John B. Floyd B) French military commander C) King Abdulaziz D) Achaemenid Persian leader
A) The invention of motorized trucks B) A massive disease outbreak among the camels C) A severe shortage of food for the animals D) The outbreak of the American Civil War
A) They were shipped back to the Middle East B) They were integrated into the Confederate cavalry C) They were housed permanently in Benicia stables D) They were left to wander away into the desert
A) Confederate Headquarters B) Benicia Historical Museum C) California State Capitol D) Benicia Arsenal
A) They are used as active military stables B) They are private residential homes C) They serve as the Benicia Historical Museum D) They are abandoned ruins
A) To participate in the Battle of Thymbra B) To transport supplies across the Sinai and Palestine Campaign C) To fight against Romanian forces in the Caucasian region D) To exercise greater control over the camel-riding Tuareg and Arab insurgents
A) 1975 B) 1912 C) 1962 D) 1944
A) 1942 B) 1912 C) 1853 D) 1916
A) The Tuareg B) The Confederate forces C) The Lydians D) The Senussi
A) They remained mounted to intimidate enemy horses B) They dismounted at battle sites and fought on foot C) They fought entirely while riding on the camels D) They used the camels strictly as heavy artillery shields
A) 1975 B) 1944 C) 1919 D) 1918
A) Sahrawi tribesmen equipped with small arms B) Egyptian camel drivers and their camels C) British infantrymen mounted for desert movement D) Roman auxiliary forces recruited in desert provinces
A) The Tropas Nómadas B) The Imperial Camel Corps C) The Bikaner Camel Corps D) The Somaliland Camel Corps
A) Bikaner Camel Corps B) Somaliland Camel Corps C) Border Security Force D) Tropas Nómadas
A) Romanian forces B) United States Army C) Spanish colonial army D) French forces in Algeria
A) Because camels were faster than all motorized vehicles B) Due to a shortage of trucks and horses C) To scare off German cavalry horses D) Because camel hair was needed for military uniforms
A) Rome B) Berlin itself C) Paris D) London
A) A brigade of French desert insurgents in the Sahara B) A division of British camel drivers in Egypt C) An auxiliary regiment of Sahrawi tribesmen serving in the colonial army in Spanish Sahara D) A Roman unit of dromedarii in desert provinces
A) 1975 B) 1944 C) 1919 D) 1962
A) California B) India C) Spanish Sahara D) Saudi Arabia
A) $1m (£700k) B) $100m (£70m) C) $12m (£8m) D) $57m (£40m)
A) They were too young to enter the pageant B) They were discovered to be the wrong breed C) They showed signs of aggressive behavior D) Their owners were found to have injected them with botox
A) Exactly 12 camels B) Over 40 camels C) Only 5 camels D) Over 100 camels
A) 32 pairs B) 37 pairs C) 74 pairs D) 41 pairs
A) 76 B) 37 C) 74 D) 68
A) One B) Three C) 37 D) 32
A) 37 B) 32 C) Three D) One
A) 37 B) 3 C) 32 D) 1
A) Acrocentric B) Submetacentric C) Small metacentric D) Large metacentric
A) Submetacentric B) Acrocentric C) Large metacentric D) Small metacentric
A) 2.15 m B) 1.85 m C) 2.32 m D) 2.70 m
A) 2.50 m B) 2.32 m C) 1.90 m D) 2.15 m
A) 650 kg B) 800 kg C) 500 kg D) 450 kg
A) About 40 to 50 million years ago B) About 11 million years ago C) About 1 million years ago D) About 16 million years ago
A) About 16 million years ago B) About 5 million years ago C) About 1 million years ago D) About 11 million years ago
A) An extinct camel species B) The earliest known camel C) A Bactrian-dromedary hybrid D) A camel-llama hybrid
A) Gonadotrophin injections B) Natural light cycles C) Artificial hormones D) Temperature changes
A) Ears B) A hump C) Hooves D) Legs
A) Sterile B) Fertile C) Sometimes fertile D) Varies by gender
A) Paracamelus B) Poebrotherium C) Stenomylus D) Protylopus
A) Pliocene B) Pleistocene C) Miocene D) Eocene
A) A goat B) A rabbit C) A horse D) A dog
A) Asia B) South America C) South Dakota D) Africa
A) Aepycamelus B) Stenomylus C) Protylopus D) Paracamelus
A) Holocene B) Pleistocene C) Miocene D) Eocene
A) Camelini B) Protylopus C) Camelidae D) Lamini
A) Camelini B) Paracamelus C) Stenomylus D) Lamini
A) Camelops hesternus B) Protylopus C) Paracamelus D) Poebrotherium
A) Via the Isthmus of Panama B) Via South America C) Via Beringia D) Via Africa
A) During the Eocene B) During the Pleistocene C) During the Holocene D) During the late Miocene
A) About nine feet B) About five feet C) About eleven feet D) About seven feet
A) Paracamelus B) Camelops hesternus C) Camelus knoblochi D) Aepycamelus
A) Holocene extinction B) Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event C) Permian-Triassic extinction event D) Quaternary extinction event
A) Camelops hesternus B) Protylopus C) Camelus knoblochi D) Paracamelus
A) 1 million years ago B) 7.5 million years ago C) Around 20,000 years ago D) 13 to 11,000 years ago
A) Ancient Semitic B) Ancient Egyptian C) Old Norse D) Sanskrit
A) Carnivoran B) Marsupial C) Odd-toed ungulate D) Even-toed ungulate
A) 94% B) 84% C) 6% D) 50%
A) Lamini B) Ungulate C) Ruminant D) Camelid
A) Llama B) Wild Bactrian camel C) Dromedary D) Bactrian camel
A) 80 km/h B) 25 km/h C) 40 km/h D) 65 km/h
A) Nictitating membrane B) Os diaphragmaticum C) Dulla D) Rete mirabile
A) Water B) Air C) Blood plasma D) Fatty tissue
A) 10% B) 5% C) 30% D) 50%
A) Bladder B) Bloodstream C) Stomach chambers D) Humps
A) Square B) Oval C) Star-shaped D) Circular
A) 37 °C B) 49 °C C) 34 °C D) 40 °C
A) Rete mirabile B) Dulla C) Os diaphragmaticum D) Nictitating membrane
A) 25% B) 40% C) 10% D) 50%
A) Dulla B) Pedestal C) Rete mirabile D) Os diaphragmaticum
A) Red B) Black C) Darker D) Lighter
A) Dulla B) Cushion C) Pedestal D) Hump
A) Clear water B) A thick syrup C) A solid crystal D) Foamy milk
A) 1983 B) 1993 C) 2003 D) 1963
A) Surra B) Foot-and-mouth disease C) Rinderpest D) Anthrax
A) Cecotrophy B) Rumination C) Regurgitation of pellets D) Fermentation
A) 90 °C B) 50 °C C) 70 °C D) 100 °C
A) Australia B) Africa C) North America D) Asia
A) Yes B) Only recent fossils C) No D) Only in certain regions
A) Feral B) Wild C) Domesticated D) Extinct
A) Egypt B) Australia C) Brazil D) Canada
A) Kazakhstan B) Mongolia C) China D) United States
A) Many other megafauna B) Small rodents C) All plant life D) Marine mammals |