Episode 002 - Pre-Islamic Arabia II [Episode Guide]

The Camel

I'm going to use this opportunity to show you pictures of various Arabian landscapes, and the desert vegetation that camels and other animals graze on. 

Camel standing near Desert Shrubs (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)

Camel & Shrubs (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)

Camel herd grazing (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)

Camel pulling a cart (Courtesy of Khalid Mahmood)

Landscape image showing the Desert Shrubs (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)

 You can see the valve like nostrils, the long neck. and the heavy eyelids/eyelashes (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)

Nefud Desert Landscape (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)

Camel herd grazing in the Nefud Desert (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)

Nejd Landscape, sparse vegetation visible in the valley (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)

Qasr Al Sarab, on the Eastern outskirts of the Empty Quarter (Courtesy of Flickr account Panorama)

The Empty Quarter, vegetation visible (Courtesy of Land Rover MENA)

Wadi in the Nejd (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)

Desert Shrub exposed due fast winds (Nefud) shifting the sand dunes (Courtesy of Peter Dowley)

Hunting

Here are some of the animals that were hunted in Arabia:

Arabian Gazelles (Courtesy of Mike Scott)

Arabian Leopard (Courtesy of Land Rover Our Planet)

Arabian Oryx (Courtesy of Sharon Mollerus)

Asiatic Cheetah, now extinct in Arabia (Courtesy of Behnam Ghorbani)

Range of the Cheetah

Cheetah (Courtesy of Shankar S.)

Desert Leopard (Courtesy of Yossi Aud)

Nubian Ibex (Courtesy of Marcel Holyoak)

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