The camel, its evolution, ecology, behavior, and relationship to man /

Gauthier-Pilters, Hilde, 1923-1981.

The camel, its evolution, ecology, behavior, and relationship to man / Hilde Gauthier-Pilters and Anne Innis Dagg ; photos. by Hilde Gauthier-Pilters. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1981. - xii, 208 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-200) and index.

Part 1. Evolution, Ecologym and Behavior : 1. Evolution and Present Status - 2. Habitat - 3. Feeding - 4. Drinking - 5. Adaptations to the Desert - 6. Behavior - 7. Locomotion and Loads -- Part II. Relationship to Man : 8. Domestication, Early History, and Exportation - 9. Nomadism - 10. Water Supply - 11. Recent Uses.

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Camels.

QL737.U54 / G38 1981

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