Notes:
- Photograph: San Diego Zoo. Dromedary: 7 to 11 feet long; 6 to 6.6 feet tall at the shoulder; weights 880 to 1,320 pounds when grown. Gestation of 12 to 14 months. A newborn camel is able to walk beside the mother within half an hour. Camel calves nurse for 10 to 18 months. Reach full adult size at age seven. Median life expectancy is 17.8 years.
- Background on Caleb/Wednesday/Hump Day Posts and Geico’s original commercial: Let’s Hit it Again
mama just needs a little rest, but she sure loves you –
Smiling. Yes.
We had a new calf born earlier this week at the farm next door. I watched it wobbling around the pasture yesterday, finding its legs. So very sweet…
Wonderful. I can see why cows are sacred in India.
It really is so sweet. Big, big blue eyes and these lashes that go on for miles. And Mama is so solicitous, watching over it like a hawk. Fun to witness…
oh i bet.
And your experience so reminded me of this passage from Beth’s blog – replace “horse” with “cow”:
Sometimes it seems God could be
the eye of a horse that holds
a darkened lake, some boat of light
upon wind swept grain. And here
among the opened white scroll
of clouds trapped inside a water trough
lies a baptism without some doctrine.”
Greg Sellers, opening lines to “Faith Found in a Pasture,” The Journal of Wild Culture (3 November 2017)
Yes!
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CALEB … I missed you so!! … ‘Dromedary: 7 to 11 feet long; 6 to 6.6 feet tall at the shoulder; weights 880 to 1,320 pounds when grown. Gestation of 12 to 14 months. A newborn camel is able to walk beside the mother within half an hour. Camel calves nurse for 10 to 18 months. Reach full adult size at age seven. Median life expectancy is 17.8 years.’
🙂
Looks to me the little one already looking cocky and mama just smiling and thinking “oh, sweetie, just you wait” 🙂
Smiling. Well captured. I can see that….
They really are strange looking animals, but you’d never mistake them for anything else.
So true.
They are so-o precious! I’ll bet that mama just needs a moment (to rest) but she’s totally attentive.
Did anyone see the recent PBS showing of Lawrence of Arabia (restored version)? Beautiful camels (and many horses) doing their thing.
They are precious. No I didn’t see PBS. I need to find it. Thank you Valerie.
Aw!
Come and I’ll give you a kiss my sweet child.
Its what warms all our hearts ❤️
Smiling. Yes.
How could I miss this? Bring your baby to work day!!!
Awww, yes…
Hey Ma! Get up and feed me!!!!
-Alan
Yes!