Assertion: camel's food | /r/HasProperty | scarce
Facets:
value: in the sahara
type: LOCATION
value: for long stretches
type: TEMPORAL
value: often
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Camels' humps consist of stored fat, which they can metabolize when food and water is scarce.
text: If food is scarce camels will use the stored fat in their humps, which will shrink then droop to one side as they empty, but rapidly fill again when the situation improves.
text: The Camel is one of the most unique mammals on the planet and has adapted perfectly to life in the desert where food and water can often be scarce, and the temperature changes rapidly from the scorching-hot days to the cooler nights.
text: One of the most remarkable things about Camels is their ability to store the energy from their food and water as fat in their hump, which means they have a ready supply of energy when food and water are scarce.
text: This fat can be broken down and used as nutrition in emergencies where food is scarce, so camels can go for days without water or food.
text: When food is scarce, the camel’s body uses the fat stored in the hump, causing the hump to lean over and droop.
text: When the food is scarce, they make the use of already existing food by regurgitating it.
text: Camels utilize their humps’ fats as an energy source when food is scarce.
text: Camels walk 3 km (1.8 mi) per day looking for food, on average 3 hours, and disperse when food is scarce.
text: Because they live in the desert, where food might be scarce, they move constantly while eating.
text: The hump stores fat and if food is scarce, nourishment is provided by the hump.
text: Because camels typically live in the desert, where food can be scarce for long stretches, this is important.
text: The truth is the hump, or humps in the case of the Bactrian camel, are a fatty deposit that provides energy when food is scarce.
text: The humps are filled with fat, which provides energy to the camel when food is scarce.
text: It stores body fat which helps it to regulate temperature and provide energy to camel when the food and water is scarce.
text: The camel uses it as nourishment when food is scarce.
text: When food and water are scarce the camel uses its stored fat in the hump for energy.
text: The fat can also be turned into energy when food is scarce.
text: The camel can survive for up to 2 weeks when food is scarce as its body consumes the fat reserves in the hump for nourishment.
text: once popularly thought to contain water, in fact contain fat that is used as fuel when food is scarce.
text: once popularly thought to contain water, in fact contain fat, which is used as fuel when food is scarce.
text: Their two humps contain fat reserves, not water, and camels draw upon these reserves when food is scarce.
text: Unfortunately the answer is relatively dull - it appears that the humps are merely food reserves, and the fat contained within is degraded and used for nutrition when food is scarce.
text: However, camels’ humps actually store fatty tissue, not water, which is used as a source of nourishment when food is scarce.
text: When the food is so scarce in the Sahara, the deathstalker scorpions will slow down their metabolism.
text: When the food is scarce, the camels can break down the stored fat into energy and water.
text: During dry season, when the food is scarce, oryx lives in small herds composed of less than 30 animals.
text: ’s mouth is very tough, to enable the animal to eat whatever it can digest, when food is scarce.
text: Bactrian Camels have two humps that they use to store fat and they use these fat reserves when food is scarce.
text: They have many adaptations to desert life including having the ability to lose up to 40% of their body weight when food and water are scarce and allowing their body temperature to rise in hot conditions in order to reduce sweating and to conserve moisture.