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1. Life in the Andes would be impossible without them. When a house is built on the Andes plateaus, people use to immure at its foundation a new born llama. For thousands of years, llamas have been used for meat and burden transport, while its other domesticated relative, alpaca, delivered the finest wool for making ... |
31 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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1. The oldest known camel is Protylopus, appeared 40-50 million years ago (Eocene) in North America. It had the size of a rabbit and lived in forests. Later, camels spread to the savanna and increased their size. In Oligocene, 35 million years ago, Poebrotherium had the size of a roe deer, but already resembled a cam... |
19 October 2007
15:56 GMT |
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Some beliefs are due to a lack of scientific knowledge, some come from legends and others are the cause of misspellings from one language to another or even sensory illusions! Here are just 10 of them:1.Camels do not store water in their humps. This widespread belief comes from the fact that, while crossing the deser... |
7 July 2007
07:32 GMT |
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The Tuareg makes you think about freedom, power and the vastness of the desert; Wolkswagen found its inspiration in the qualities of the proud nation of the Sahara. The Berbers, together with the ancient Egyptians, are the oldest group which settled in North Africa, coming about 10,000 years ago from southwestern Asi... |
26 June 2007
16:16 GMT |
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Camels are animals with a history. Some say that dromedary or Arabian camel (with one hump) could have been domesticated in southern Arabia between 6,000 to 3,400 years ago, while the larger and slower Bactrian camel (with two humps) in Central Asia about 3,500 years ago. In the ninth century BC, dromedaries were use... |
22 June 2007
15:31 GMT |
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