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Background (Afnan Mohy)

The majority of camel’s populations which approximately 94% are the dromedary camels or the one humped camels while the Bactrian camels or the tow humped camels were around 6% of the overall camel’s populations (Yam & Khomeiri, 2015) The camels are able to live in difficult conditions without drinking water due to their ability to produce small and pretty dry droppings as well as they use the water to maintain their body’s temperature to fit with the region surrounding them (Breulmann, et al., 2007) In general, to compare between camels and the other livestock, camels lose only 1.3 liters of fluid intake every day while the other livestock lose 20 to 40 liters per day (Breulmann, et al., 2007)

In hot and dry environments, within 8 to 10 days only the dromedary camels might consume water which during this period the third of their body's weight may be reduced due to the dehydration (Breulmann, et al., 2007)

In Arabian countries, they are also interested in the camel competition to promote racing camel breeds as well as it has a very high socio-economic value for both Arabian and African countries (Yam & Khomeiri, 2015

For instance, the average speed for the one humped camel is about 40 km/hour while the tow humped camel has around 27.2 km/hour (Yam & Khomeiri, 2015).

The two humped camels classified as bigger than the dromedary camels and for this reason, the skin became significantly more helpful for usage as wool and leather (Yam & Khomeiri, 2015)

Bactrian camels got its name based on a region called Bactriana located in Asia (Yam & Khomeiri, 2015).

the wild (Camelus ferus) camels are slightly close of both kinds of the dromedary camels and the Bactrian camels but they changed and separate from the Bactrian camels almost 1,000,000 years ago (Plasil, et al., 2016)