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Dromedary – also known as the Arabian camel, is a large
even-toed ungulate, of the genus
Camelus, with one hump on its back. The hump stores up to 80 lb (36 kg) of fat, which the camel can break down into energy to meet its needs when resources are scarce; the hump also helps dissipate body heat. •
Bactrian camel – also known as the Mongolian camel or domestic Bactrian camel, is a large even-toed ungulate native to the
steppes of
Central Asia. It has two humps on its back, in contrast to the single-humped dromedary camel. Like the dromedary it can break down fat in its humps into energy to meet its needs when resources are scarce; and use them to help dissipate body heat. •
Wild Bactrian camel – Once thought to have originated from escaped domesticated Bactrian camels,
genetic studies have established it as a separate species which diverged from the Bactrian camel about 1.1 million years ago. A
critically endangered species living in parts of northwestern China and southwestern Mongolia. •
American bison – commonly known as the American buffalo or simply buffalo
. Has a noticeable hump between its shoulder blades which unlike the camel is formed from muscle. The muscles assist in the shovelling of snow in winter allowing access to food. •
Gaur – Has a hump made up of muscle, humps of males are considerably larger than that of females. •
Moose – or elk (in Eurasia) is the
largest and heaviest
extant species in the
deer family. Like the bison, it has evolved large muscles on top of its neck to help it shovel snow to find winter feed. •
White rhinoceros – This species of rhino has a bulge on the back of its neck made of thickened skin, a pad of fat, thick muscle and ligament that support the animal's massive head. •
Zebu – sometimes known by the collective nouns indicine cattle or humped cattle, is a
species or subspecies of domestic
cattle. The hump is composed of fat and gives the animal resilience to droughts, and helps it cool in extreme heat. The hump may have been exaggerated in size by selective breeding since domestication. • The eland, the largest of the antelope family. Its genus has two species in Africa, the
common eland of East and Southern Africa and the
giant eland of Central and Western Africa. Both have a slight hump above the forelegs which occurs by the anatomy of its spinal column and is not a true hump. • The
hartebeest, a species of African grassland antelope, of which there are eight subspecies, all have a visible hump at the shoulder caused by the anatomy of the spine. The hump is due to the long dorsal processes of the vertebrae in the shoulder region. •
Humpback whale – A species of
baleen whale. Humpbacks can easily be identified by their stocky body, and obvious hump when diving. Humpbacks do not normally have a hump on their backs; the name comes from the large hump that forms when they arch their backs before making a dive. • The
woolly mammoth, an extinct relative of the elephant that was adapted to cold Arctic environments, had a
brown-fat hump like deposit behind its neck that may have functioned as a heat source and fat reservoir during winter. • The
brown bear has a distinctive shoulder hump made of muscle. == Fish ==