Describe how a camel is able to overcome the water stress in its habitat.

Strategies of the camel to overcome water stress include:

• It has tissues which are tolerant to desiccation. As such, it can go for as long as two months without drinking water.
• It makes use of metabolic water. The fat in its hump is believed to suit this purpose. Fat metabolism produces a lot of water which the camel uses in conditions of water stress.
• It has long loops of Henle in its kidneys so that it reabsorbs most of the water from its glomerular filtrate and produces concentrated urine
• It has scanty glomeruli and therefore has a very low glomerular filtration rate so that very little water is filtered from its blood into the glomerular filtrate
• It has a waterproof integument, the skin which reduces loss of water from the radiation and convection and not by evaporation as it is in other animals. 2

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