Eating is a pleasure, but watching camels eat is an exception. Because the camel's favorite food is the cactus covered with thorns. This kind of plant that people dare not touch, chews in the camel's mouth, but the strange thing is that the camel will not be hurt at all, but will return a face enjoying the look.

So, what is so magical about the camel's mouth that allows it to eat cacti at will? Let's just talk about this together.

Why do camels eat cacti?

Camels are one of the unique animals in desert areas. They have strong resistance to drought and heat, and can adapt to walking in the desert without eating for a long time, because camels are also called "desert boats". , was the only means of transportation for people in desert areas.

Camel is the general term for all animals in the camel family Camelidae, and there are two kinds of camels under the genus Camel, namely Dromedary and Bactrian.

Although in the impression of most people, camels are mostly double-humped, in fact, there are more than 10 million dromedary camels in the world, and there are only more than 1 million Bactrian camels.

Of course this number is the total of wild and domestic. In fact, the survival status of wild camels is very unsatisfactory. Among them, dromedary camels were once extinct in the wild (now successfully wild in Australia), while the number of two-humped camels is less than 1,000, which is a critically endangered animal.

In the wild, the origin of the two camels are also different. The Bactrian camel is native to central Asia, while the Dromedary camel is native to northeastern Africa and western Asia. Second, although the two camels are quite different, they are both desert animals.

The camel is a herbivore, but the biggest difference between it and other herbivores is that its living environment is really bad. In desert areas, vegetation is sparse, and some are highly alienated desert plants, such as camel thorn, haloxylon, sand jujube and so on.

For camels, they need not only food, but also water, and most desert plants have little water in the stems and leaves, so camels aimed at cacti with a lot of juice.

Therefore, camels eat cacti in order to find a plant in the desert that can both feed their stomachs and replenish water, and cacti have both characteristics, making them the best choice for camels.