TIL camels have teeth you'd expect from a carnivore
TIL camels have teeth you'd expect from a carnivore
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Those canines are "primarily used to chew up wood and other tough foods" as per one of the articles, but male adult camels may also use those to bite opponents when fighting with each other for territory / mates.
"Someone once described them as a Sarlacc pit from Star Wars" ... definitely a fitting description.
Here is a video of an angry camels open mounth and unclipped teeth; https://www.youtube.com/shorts/whsdxuAy37Y ... it is VERY ugly tho, view at your own discretion.
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Huh. I guess the camel mouth pictures I saw before have all their teeth extracted or something? Second pic absolutely looked like that of a large cat pic to the untrained eye (mine)
Fron what I've read, there are differences in breeds (alpacas for example have very small canines compared to other species), females have smaller canines than males (on average), and they're also usually removed / clipped for domesticated camelids (example with an alpaca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXSrIUkFNg)
Thanks for the link, those teeth got out faster than expected. I was kinda expecting the alpaca to go murder mode with how the removal was done.
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Yep, fake as hell
Nope, there are different types of camel, not all of them have canines, but some do. Also females have smaller ones than males.
Just do an image search of camel teeth and you'll find lots with large fighting canines.
That's exactly what I did though: it was mostly flat teeth.
And lots of upper canines. If you're only looking at the lower teeth you won't see them.
