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Carlos the Megacamelus

Name: Carlos

Species: Megacamelus merriami

Description: Megacamelus, as it sounds, is a very big camel - in fact, the biggest ever. Taller than a human at the shoulder and more than 12 feet tall at the head! They were also shaggier because of the chillier Ice Age environment, but at Huxley ours are groomed and cared for to be comfortable at the sometimes arid Australian environment.

Location: You can find Carlos and our bachelor herd of 8 Megacamelus Grazing in the Pleistocene plains. They love being adored by guests and usually approach the safari vehicles for treats and gentle pats.

Fun Fact: Carlos is actually the dominant camel in his herd, even though the group isn’t really in need of much leadership or social hierarchy due to the ample food and water presented for them. None the less, he likes to prove his dominance now and then and generally leads the herd.

Personality & History: Carlos is very friendly. Some of the other animals are known to spit at guests they don’t like, but Carlos usually refrains. He is aggressive when it comes to food, however. Until he is full, all treats and special food (and pretty much everything else) belongs to him.. and there’s not much we can do about it. As long as it doesn’t get unhealthy for him or the other camels we let it happen. Overall Carlos is a friendly camel. He is a favorite among the Pleistocene Plains keepers, who he gets along with well. On occasion he even lets them ride around on his back! He is still very much in charge while being ridden, we can’t control a 12ft camel, but altogether it is an important bonding activity for him and his keepers.

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A Lesson on Camel Behavior

Or, “Why we hand out safety goggles on the Pleistocene plains tour”. All was going swimmingly on our tours as usual, when Carlos, one of our Megacamelus, decided he was having a bad day. Of course, it didn't help that some of the guests were yelling at him (not too provokingly, mostly to see if they could get his attention. It didn’t seem to be a problem. One guest was particularly rowdy, and had called Carlos’s name several times. Carlos is a proud camel, standing 12 feet or more tall, and he does not like his authority questioned. Carlos promptly walked over to the loud and obnoxious jeep and did something this guest would never forget: hawked a big Loogie all over him. Now, a normal size camel, when spitting, brings up parts of its stomach to make the spit that much extra nauseating. A standard dromedary can cover half a man in spit in one go. Carlos, being twice this size, covered one half of the jeep in saliva and half-digested grass. It was green, nasty, and worst of all, according to the jeep guy, it stung his eyes. He’s fine, but now every time we tour past our Megacamelus we ask the guests to wear goggles unless they want to be spit on. I just feel bad for the intern who had to wash the jeep... ~Head of Pleistocene Plains, Keeper Moss

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A drawing I did in class of the biggest bastard to walk this Earth, the stupidly huge camel with the (not) creative yet effective name of Megacamelus. It is seen here compared to an average sized and record breaking giraffe, as well as other prehistoric camelids. This was the largest camel to ever live, standing 3.7m or just over 12ft tall at the shoulder, and weighing an impressive 3500kg, over 7700lb! Whereas Aepycamelus was the camelids’ answer to a giraffe, Megacamelus was more like an elephant of the camel family. And I’d hate to see an almost 4 ton camel with the same attitude as a modern one.

For comparison, the modern Bactrian camel (two humps) stands 2.3m (7.5ft) at the shoulder at the tallest, and weighs up to 1000kg (2200lb). Dromedaries can be up to 2m (6.5ft) at the shoulder and weigh 600kg (1320lb).

I do not own the picture of the giraffe found in the comparison.

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