What is difference between camels RBCs and human RBCs?
The red blood cells in camel are oval instead of round. Due to the oval shape, their blood cells are able to expand to 240% of its original volume, whereas the red blood cells of other animals like can only expand up to 150%. This allows the camels to drink up to 30 gallons of water in 13 minutes to recover from dehydration. This elongated shape of their red blood cells also allow the ease of traveling in thick blood and narrow blood vessels during dehydration. Their hemoglobin also have a higher affinity for oxygen than other domestic mammals like humans.