![]() ![]() This study focuses on the ways in which the early Arab botanical genre classified plants for camel pasturage and the experiential information available in these texts and other lexical sources in comparison to ethnographic analysis of camel nomadism on the Arabian Peninsula. In the extensive lore on the camel in Arabic texts, there is a wide variety of information about the kind of plants that camels eat, what are considered the best pasture, which produce the best quality milk and some that are thought to cause harm. Plants to be Avoided or Dangerous to CamelsĪrticle abstract: What do camels eat? The simple answer is almost anything. This website is a supplement to my article published in Camels in Asia and North Africa: Interdisciplinary perspectives on their significance in past and present edited by Eva-Maria Knoll & Pamela Burger (Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2012). ![]() Camels grazing in the Yemeni Tihama, 1978. ![]()
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