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Abstract
Interest in camel research as pseudoruminants has
increased in many parts of the world as camels play an
important socio-economic role within the pastoral and
agricultural systems in dry and semidry zones of Asia and
Africa. Furthermore the survival of millions of human beings is
dependent on the camel in such areas where it produces milk,
meat, wool, hair, hides and serves for riding. The camels gained
a special importance and a great attention after they were
proved to be the best among the other agricultural animals
especially during sever prolonged drought strikes when other
animals cease to produce or die out. Recently, the Camel
Applied Research and Development Network (CARDN)
belonging to the Arab Center for the Studies of Arid Zones and
Dry Lands (ACSAD) in Syria was constructed and including
several Arabian, African and Asian countries where it finances
the camel researches. Due to the deficiency in information
concerning the physiology of digestion in camel, and attempts to
compensate this by reference to ruminants which is unwise as
distinct differences occur in the features of their compound
stomach and the secretions of the rumen fluid, different studies
should be carried out in order to understand the physiology of
digestion in camel through separation, purification and
characterization of microbial digestive enzymes which are
responsible for digestion in camel rumen.