Bindi & Robert Irwin feature - Camels (Delilah) - Growing Up Wild - video Dailymotion

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Robert & Bindi Irwin showcase their wildest animals at Australia Zoo. Subscribe to The Pet Collective: http://full.sc/HbM62v Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thepetcollective Twitter: https://twitter.com/petcollectiveTV Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/petcollectivetv/ Google+: gplus.to/thepetcollective  Robert takes us to meet his friend Delilah the Camel. Delilah is a Dromedary Camel meaning she only has one hump, the Bactrian Camel has two. Camels are well suited to their life in the desert their hump is actually for storing fat reserves, not water which is stored in their. They also have soft feet which spread out so they don't sink into the sand. There are more than a million wild Camels in Australia. They were brought to help explore the Australian Desert and now there are more than in the Middle East, so many in fact that they are being sent back from Australia.   Cast Robert Irwin.                     Crew; Producer: Tom Armstrong, Camera Operator: Ryan Mooney, Sound Recordist: Scott Mulready. Editor: Lucy Garrick, Graphics: Matt White.

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00:00There you go.

00:10This is my friend Delilah, the dromedary camel.

00:13Isn't she beautiful?

00:17So there are actually two types of camels.

00:20There's this one, which is the dromedary, and then there's also the Bactrian camel.

00:25So the Bactrian camel live near Mongolia, and they've actually got two humps, but these

00:30guys, the dromedary camel, they're from parts like the Middle East, and they've only got

00:38one hump.

00:39What a lot of people think is that the water is actually stored in their hump, but it's

00:46not.

00:47That's for the fat, and the water is actually stored in their blood.

00:50So Delilah here is actually related to the sheep, the cows, and also goats.

00:58See if you look here, their nose is able to close up and open, so whenever there's a lot

01:03of sand coming in, because they live in the desert, then that sand doesn't go through

01:08their noses.

01:09And they've also got those big eyelashes, that's so the sand doesn't go in their eyes,

01:14and on their ears they've got a lot of fur so that it doesn't get in their ears either.

01:19When they're walking, they spread out their feet so they don't sink down in the sand.

01:25So there are actually over a million dromedary camels here in Australia, and the Afghani

01:31people actually brought them over here to build a railway and also explore the outback

01:36of Australia.

01:37So because we have so many camels here in Australia, we're actually exporting some back

01:43to the Middle East, where they originally came from.

01:47We've got a lot more animals at Australia Zoo, so remember to watch next time, and subscribe

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Bindi & Robert Irwin feature - Camels (Delilah) - Growing Up Wild

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