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Jan 2015
14m 12s

How the Camel Got His Hump

Starglow Media / Wondery
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Today we bring you another interesting animal origin story from Rudyard Kipling, the author of the Jungle Book. How did the Camel get his hump? We have the answers in the form of this unique, vocabulary-enhancing just-so story.  
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