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« on: April 14, 2011, 11:23:22 AM »
I am looking for info about camels, specifically their eyes.  The ONLY (and I mean only) books I have found are children's books.  I have looked at google books, amazon, and the library.

Any info?

Any suggestions?
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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2011, 11:25:37 AM »
Check the source lists in the kid books. You may be able to find adult sources that way.
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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2011, 11:32:47 AM »
I had thought of that.  I guess I will give it a shot!

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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2011, 12:47:10 PM »
Katie, you can also get on the net and go directly to any of the zoo websites--and most of them have sties--and ask for an expert's knowledge. They're usually more than happy to help out someone looking for specific info and may give you plenty more than you ever thought possible.

You might even get an interview with one of their staff vets. Good luck  with you project.
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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2011, 01:32:12 PM »
Katie,

Go to Google Scholar and type in "camel eye" (you might want to do an advanced search and tell them not to include the word "needle" in the results.) I found a few promising hits on the first page. You can also play around with search terms: the scientific name for the genus, and the term "ocular" for instance. Good luck. There IS stuff out there. (Not that it will be pleasant to read... but if it's fairly recent, you can always email the researcher and ask him/her to explain.)
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« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2011, 01:51:36 PM »
Thanks, Clauds!  I hadn't thought of that.

And Ella, I will try your suggestion.  I did do googlescholar, but kept getting Biblical references to camels going through the eyes of needles!  Grin  I will do the advanced search.

Thanks!
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« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2011, 01:56:50 PM »
Quote from: KatieC on April 14, 2011, 01:51:36 PM
Thanks, Clauds!  I hadn't thought of that.

And Ella, I will try your suggestion.  I did do googlescholar, but kept getting Biblical references to camels going through the eyes of needles!  Grin  I will do the advanced search.

Thanks!

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« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2011, 03:16:12 PM »
try using the latin name for the camel...you'll get more scholarly papers that way.
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« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2011, 07:28:45 PM »
You'd need to back this up with actual facts, but I'm pretty sure that camels are basically colour blind the same as horses are. Well, not actually colour blind but they only see tones of colour and not vivid colours like we do. There's lots of info about equine vision in books and on the internet, you just need to find out if camels are the same (as I said, I think they are but I'm not 100% sure). Good luck!
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« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2011, 07:34:53 PM »
Good luck with your search, Katie. I know how annoying it is to get false hits. Just the other day I was trying to come up with a specific example of a "soft" fish (like a seahorse is a hard fish, because it has bony plates for skin). Well, uh, you when you google soft fish, you end up with a bunch of recipes and some advice about fishing. Grr. Fortunately, I remembered a couple of good examples around 2 am (Here's one of them, for anyone who is interested: http://blogfishx.blogspot.com/2011/03/hagfish-eat-with-their-skin.html). Otherwise, my next step would have been what Claudette suggested, and contacted an aquarium.
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« Reply #10 on: July 26, 2011, 04:20:36 PM »
I've also been doing off an on research about Camels, and like you, I've had a hard time finding what I'm looking for.


Since the info I seek is different than yours, I posted my own thread.

Just wanted to say I know it can tough finding specific info you need, and the general sources only take you so far. Sometimes it's enough to get you started, but often for me more specific facts are necessary. Anything to reduce the number of edits I have to do without being lazy is more than okay by me.
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« Reply #11 on: July 26, 2011, 07:42:44 PM »
katie,  very few animals are totally color blind. Horses and camels have both rods and cones in their eyes, and it is the cones which allow them to see in color.  However, horses can only see blue and...I think the other color is green, and most animals are the same...seeing only grayed shades of blue, green, and yellow. I imagine camels are the same.

Dogs see better in color than most animals, and can distinguish between red, blue, green and yellow.  Parrots see colors as vividly as we do, actually more so, because they can see through ultraviolet rays, and we can't.

And that's the extent of my knowledge about camel eyes  Grin

Besides going to the sites of some of the major zoos, you can also go to some of the big universities, to their Zoology departments and see if you can get an email interview with one of the professors.  I did that with my article on Dung Beetles, and got a wonderful interview with one of the Entomology professors.

I'm sure there must be literary and journalistic articles on camels somewhere on the Internet.
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