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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.
Honestly that they have 4 large canini in total is by far the least interesting part about the anatomy of a camels mouth. Look at the unique rough roof of the mouth and look how they casually eat cactus. Their mouth is like a heavy leather bag filled with bricks mashing anything that gets between them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9NC2saE5MbQ&pp=ygUMY2FtZWwgY2FjdHVz
Cacti: Evolution gave us needles to protect us from being eaten!
Camels: haha eating needles go brrrrr
So satisfying
cronch cronch cronch
Now I’m hungry. It looks delicious.
It’s the quenchiest.
panini
And here I am worried about picking a prickly pear from the cactus in the front yard.
if the camel bit me and I punched him, how long will it take it for lemmy.world to receive its next DDoS attack?
I saw a clip of some guy punching a camel in the head, trying to get it to move (or something).
The camel finally snapped at him, got hold of an arm or shoulder, and just ragdolled him, eventually settling in to rip chunks off while pinning his torso.
Saw it too. Nice reference
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.
Yep, fake as hell
Crikey! Oid better stick me thumb in it!
I saw a video of a camel murdering a guy like a rag doll after the dude punched the camel. This is just another item tucked away in the " don’t fuck with camels" folder.
I’m more interested in its gums, which look like they belong in a sarlacc pit.
Fascinating! Llamas don’t seem to have this kind of teeth. Wonder why.
its tongue, roof of mouth and back of throat all look uniquely tough. There is a lot of evolution going on here
