Why are camels ships in the desert and lions not?

Why can a camel be a "boat in the desert" but a lion can't? Because camels have many characteristics that lions don't have, today I will tell you about the characteristics of camels:

/kloc-0.0 million years ago, camels lived in North America. Their ancestors crossed the Bering Strait to reach Asia and Africa and evolved into bactrian camels and human domesticated dromedaries. China is one of the countries that domesticated humpback camels earlier in the world. As early as the Zhou Dynasty (about 3000 years ago), a large number of camels were domesticated and raised in northern China. Camel has become a veritable "boat in the desert" with its strong physical strength, endurance and viability.

Today, I will show you the powerful biological characteristics of camels.

Cold and heat resistant

At noon in summer, the surface temperature of the desert can reach 65-75℃, and other domestic animals can't survive. Camels can support their weight with their elbows, chests and hind knees to adapt to the high temperature on the ground. Take off your coat in early summer, and after a period of hairless period, new hair can grow, just to spend the hot summer, which is beneficial to body surface heat dissipation. After autumn, thick fluff will grow again to resist the severe winter.

Hunger and thirst tolerance

Camels are hungry and thirsty. Every time they drink enough water, they can still go without water for several days in the hot and dry desert area. Because there are many extremely thin and tortuous pipes in their noses, the pipes are usually wet with liquid.

Strong eating ability

Camel's neck is very long, bent into a "B" shape, generally about 100 cm long, and it is very flexible. It can not only feed on short plants and shrubs near the ground with its head down, but also feed on branches and leaves of trees more than 2 meters high with its head up. Its neck can move freely up and down, left and right, and it has strong foraging ability. Its mouth is pointed, its upper lip splits vertically, its lower lip is pointed and free, and its lower jaw is thin and elastic, so it can be chewed. It can feed on plants of Compositae and Chenopodiaceae that other livestock don't want to eat, such as prickly, hairy and salty plants, as well as rough and prickly plants such as herbs, shrubs, cacti and branches.

Suitable for walking in the desert

Camel's head is small, and its neck is thick and long, bending like a goose's neck. He is tall and brown. The eyelids are double eyelids, the nostrils can be opened and closed, the limbs are slender, the hooves are as big as dishes, the toes are separated, and the soles of the feet are thick and will not sink into the sand. Their long legs can also keep them away from the hot ground.

Detoxification ability

Camels can eat a plant called Stellera chamaejasme, and other animals will be poisoned if they eat this food. Camels love to eat salt, which is about 8 times that of cattle and sheep. High salt can cause hypertension and other diseases, and Stellera chamaejasme can cause poisoning, but this special mechanism of camel can maintain its normal physiological activities. It is found that camel's special detoxification ability and high salt tolerance are related to cytochrome P450 in its body.