The camel, that intricate, prodigious piece of nature…
-T.E. Lawrence
Ba’īr, pl. Ab’ira, Bu’rān, Abā’ir, Ba’ārīn, Dung Dropper, Camel
-H. Wehr
I always marvelled how much dropped dung over night came after such poor grazing the day before, knowing that still more was left in the threeway gut to chew and rechew and chew again. A prodigious amount from the rumen’s intricate machine.