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A '''camel''' (from {{lang-la|camelus}} and {{lang-grc-gre|κάμηλος}} ({{Transliteration|el|kamēlos}}) from [[Semitic languages|Ancient Semitic]]: ''gāmāl''<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |year=2005 |title=camel |encyclopedia=The New Oxford American Dictionary |publisher=Oxford University Press, Inc |edition=2nd}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Herper |first=Douglas |title=camel |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=camel |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927090522/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=camel |archive-date=27 September 2013 |access-date=28 November 2012 |work=Online Etymology Dictionary}}</ref>) is an [[Artiodactyl|even-toed ungulate]] in the [[genus]] '''''Camelus''''' that bears distinctive fatty deposits known as "humps" on its back. Camels have long been [[domesticated]] and, as [[livestock]], they provide food ([[camel milk]] and meat) and textiles (fiber and felt from [[camel hair]]). Camels are [[working animal]]s especially suited to their desert habitat and are a vital means of transport for passengers and cargo. There are three surviving [[species]] of camel. The one-humped [[dromedary]] makes up 94% of the world's camel population, and the two-humped [[Bactrian camel]] makes up 6%. The [[wild Bactrian camel]] is a distinct species that is not ancestral to the domestic Bactrian camel, and is now [[critically endangered]], with
The word ''camel'' is also used informally in a wider sense, where the more correct term is "camelid", to include all seven species of the family [[Camelidae]]: the true camels (the above three species), along with the "New World" camelids: the [[llama]], the [[alpaca]], the [[guanaco]], and the [[vicuña]], which belong to the separate tribe [[Lamini]].<ref name=bornstein10>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1186/1751-0147-52-S1-S17 | issn = 1751-0147 | volume = 52 | issue = Suppl 1 | page = S17 | last = Bornstein | first = Set | title = Important ectoparasites of Alpaca (Vicugna pacos) | journal = Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica | year = 2010 | pmc = 2994293 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Camelids originated in North America during the [[Eocene]], with the ancestor of modern camels, ''[[Paracamelus]]'', migrating across the [[Bering land bridge]] into Asia during the late [[Miocene]], around 6 million years ago.
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