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jeff smisek posted:Pick how about alpacas. Thank u for the camel thread Alpaca are probably domesticated vicuna, but they've been domesticated a very long time. Actually, what differentiates "species" is a huge argument in biology, so whether they're really "different species" just depends on where humans choose to draw the line. Generally speaking, alpaca are like sheep but a bit smarter but also jerks. Sometimes sheep herders put a llama or alpaca in there because they'll lead the herd around and scare off dogs and coyotes and stuff, because they're bigger and they can see further and they've got higher aggro
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bleep.bloop posted:They are, but all the ones I've known are also notorious practical jokers. Once a horse stole a pencil out of my tool bags and made me chase him around to get it back. Do camelids like to play pranks on people? A friend of mine has a mad crafty horse who can break out of any normal stall. My great-aunt once owned a horse who was super smart, a Lipizzaner who would babysit children. By all accounts, that horse was a better mother than my great-aunt was. My therapy horse was kind of a dumbass but I miss him. Those are horses. 
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 Motherhood  This guy is a blue-eyed white, which is a recessive thing that means they are usually deaf. He's pretty chill.  The African American  Portrait of a Gumboot Sucker
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ty for posting your alpacas 
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Aug 8, 2016 00:23
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Why the double-l in "llama"? Is it paletised, or like a Welsh thing? (Not about camels as such, but whatevs.)
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Aug 8, 2016 00:32
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camels are used by the Kenyan national library service to get books around remote places 
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Aug 8, 2016 00:54
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death sext posted:camels are used by the Kenyan national library service to get books around remote places thats rad
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Aug 8, 2016 03:17
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dromebary
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I have a song that I sing to myself to remember the South American camelids it goes: llamas and alpacas guanacos and vicuņas one of the other benefits of my South American camelids song is that it also helps me remember the wild species/domesticated species pairings (guanaco/llama, vicuņa/alpaca) by the order they go in I hope that some of you can use my song too
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TheUltimateDoofus posted:I have a song that I sing to myself to remember the South American camelids Thank you, this is very informative.
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Aug 8, 2016 04:09
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Here is a man trying to grab a camel. http://i.imgur.com/pEN9mgq.gifv The camel has none of it.
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Pick posted:Thank you, this is very informative. i think it sucks anyways what's the name of the long neck weird deer i was just wondering and where are they found
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Aug 8, 2016 07:38
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I was about to make a giraffe gaffe and post a G. Camelopardalis
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Aug 8, 2016 07:45
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Australia has camels. It should not be this way. Once upon a time Nevada had camels.
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Aug 8, 2016 09:48
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lovely temper indeed.
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Aug 8, 2016 10:02
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That camel did nothing wrong.
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Aug 8, 2016 10:24
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I don't think they have a bad temper, they just aren't dumb. Horses are dumb as gently caress and do whatever you tell them to do, but a camel is smart enough to think "nah that is bullshit I ain't gonna do it". My aunt raises sheep and she has a guard llama named Apollo. He likes apples and having his neck scratched.
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Aug 8, 2016 11:24
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yeah, same
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Aug 8, 2016 12:43
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the noises that angry camels make is deeply unsettling reminds me of zerg kinda
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Aug 8, 2016 13:02
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doom imps make camel noises
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Aug 8, 2016 13:30
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I used to hate camels... but not anymore! Thanks Pick! (op)
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Aug 8, 2016 13:39
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Pick posted:Dromedary camels, which are large diurnal desert creatures, are obviously more concerned with shedding heat than maintaining it. They don't have large ears like elephants though (in fact, camel ears are itty-bitty). They can however survive high internal temperatures, so yeah they let their interior temperatures reach 105 or so degrees F on a sometimes daily basis. They can go four two weeks without drinking water as long as the temperature isn't too high, since their kidneys are extremely effective at using minimal water for excretion. uhhh yep I think that stuff is right. In addition to all of the above, there's current research into the expression of heat shock proteins in camels and how that expression aids in homeostatic maintenance. When organisms get too hot they die as a result of multiple factors all coming together as a confluence of failures. Part of that cascade involves the denaturing (or unmaking, if you will) of proteins crucial to the process of cell biology. Basically when something gets too hot its cellular proteins get all fucky and unwound, and cells start dying as their processes stop. Heat shock proteins appear to help keep those super-important proteins from denaturing at high temperatures; when camels are exposed to them, the genes for their heat shock proteins are over-expressed which indicates their bodies are cranking up the protection. After that over-expression, there's a drop in the presence of that gene, and then they're back to normal in about a day. So glad I finally got to talk about something from my Bio MS classes to an audience that isn't middle schoolers.
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just in case anyone was thinking buying a camel: https://www.exoticanimalsforsale.net/camels-for-sale.asp and because i like small camels and think it would be cool to have a dog sized camel as a pet heres a cool blurb about the vicuņa: http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2014/04/01/life-as-the-worlds-smallest-camel/
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Camels are alright in my book
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