. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. NATURAL ins TORY. it liad made, the animal wa head against tlie wall and c 30 mortified at the d on the ; discovery of its scheme, that it dashed its THE BACTRIAN CAMEL.* The Two-humped Camel is found in the regions to the east and north of the home of its One- humped ally, extending as far as Pekin and Lake Baikal. It it a heavier, shorter-legged, and thicker- coated species, at the same time that the feet are more adapted to a less yielding soil from theii- greater callousness. The hau- is specially abundant upon the top of the
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. NATURAL ins TORY. it liad made, the animal wa head against tlie wall and c 30 mortified at the d on the ; discovery of its scheme, that it dashed its THE BACTRIAN CAMEL.* The Two-humped Camel is found in the regions to the east and north of the home of its One- humped ally, extending as far as Pekin and Lake Baikal. It it a heavier, shorter-legged, and thicker- coated species, at the same time that the feet are more adapted to a less yielding soil from theii- greater callousness. The hau- is specially abundant upon the top of the head, the arm, , throat, and humps. There is no variety of this species corresponding to the Dromedary One-liumped THE The Llamas, when the term is employed in its wider sense, include the American representatives of the Camel tribe, none of which have any trace of the dorsal hump or humps found in their Old World allies. They are mountain animals, found in the Cordilleras of Peru and Chili, in this respect also differmg from the desert-loving Camels, with which they agree in all imjiOrtant structural peculiarities, including the stomach, lips, nostrils, and coat. The feet ai'e somewhat modified in accordance with the rocky nature of the mountain regions which they inhabit, the sole-pads being less considerable, and almost comjiletely divided into two hard cushions, with a long and hooked nail in the front of each. were found domesticated when South America was first discovered by the Spaniards, * Cameliis bactrianus, + Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Duncan, P. Martin (Peter Martin), 1821-1891; Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University). NCRS. London [etc] Cassell & Company, Limited
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