Book 2014

Where do camels belong?

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Publisher: Profile Books
Language: English
Published: 2014

Plants
Biogeography
Introduced organisms
Animals
Dispersal
Biological invasions
Paleobiogeography
Climatic factors

Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there. They evolved in North America, retain their greatest diversity in South America, and the only remaining wild dromedaries are in Australia. This instructive and controversial book delivers unexpected answers.