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Through the Desert is a German-style board game designed by Reiner Knizia. It was originally released in 1998 by German game publisher, Kosmos , under the name Durch die Wüste . Players place pastel colored plastic camels on a hexagon-based board in an attempt to score points by capturing watering holes and reaching oases.
The jeep problem, [1] desert crossing problem [2] or exploration problem [3] is a mathematics problem in which a jeep must maximize the distance it can travel into a desert with a given quantity of fuel. The jeep can only carry a fixed and limited amount of fuel, but it can leave fuel and collect fuel at fuel dumps anywhere in the desert.
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for 900,000 square kilometres (350,000 sq mi), ... the dark dots are camel thorns.
A camel decorated for a tourist camel ride in the Judean Desert. The ideal age to start training dromedaries for riding is three years, [46] although they may be stubborn and unruly. [128] At first the camel's head is controlled, and it is later trained to respond to sitting and standing commands, and to allow mounting. [34]
Camel milk is a staple food of desert nomad tribes and is sometimes considered a meal itself; a nomad can live on only camel milk for almost a month. [ 19 ] [ 39 ] [ 123 ] [ 124 ] Camel milk can readily be made into yogurt , but can only be made into butter if it is soured first, churned, and a clarifying agent is then added. [ 19 ]
The Bactrian camel shares the genus Camelus with the dromedary (C. dromedarius) and the wild Bactrian camel (C. ferus).The Bactrian camel belongs to the family Camelidae. [1] [5] The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was the first European to describe the camels: in his 4th century BCE History of Animals, he identified the one-humped Arabian camel and the two-humped Bactrian camel.
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Mammalian xerocoles sweat much less than their non-desert counterparts. For example, the camel can survive ambient temperatures as high as 49 °C (120 °F) without sweating, [6] and the kangaroo rat lacks sweat glands entirely. [7] Both birds and mammals in the desert have oils on the surface of their skin to "waterproof" it and inhibit ...