One Hump or Two?

Here’s a neat trick for remembering which type of camel has how many humps.

There are two types of camels; the Bactrian camel and the Dromedary camel. One type has two humps and the other type has only one.

Take the first letters of the two types: Bactrian and Dromedary, or B and D.

Turn those letters on their sides, or 90 degrees to the left.

Now you can clearly see that Bactrian camels have two humps (as indicated by the two humps of the letter B) and that the Dromedary camels have only one hump (as indicated by the one hump of the letter D).

Pretty neat, eh?

And, by the way, a camel’s hump is NOT filled with water, as is erroneously believed by some people. Rather, it is filled with fat reserves that the animal draws on when food & water is scarce.