The male dromedary camel is the first born at the zoo since 1982. He weighed about 80 pounds when he was born in March and could grow to be more than 1,500 pounds as an adult.

Dromedary camels use heterothermy to regulate their body temperature throughout the day. ... Groups are composed of as many as 30 individuals including a family unit with one dominant male.

Can’t you just picture camels traveling across the desert sand with their humps silhouetted against the glorious sunset? They ...

“Chico puts the drama in dromedary,” the camels’ owner, Jennifer Lagusker, said as he grumbled loudly, exposing his slimy tongue as volunteers loaded water jugs onto his frame on a warm day ...