Camels and llamas had their origin in North America. [1]
North America was soon overrun by ruminants—deer, oxen, camels, bison, and several species of rhinoceroses. Enormous herds of horses joined the camels on the western plains of North America. [2] North American camels went to China. [3] Llamas and giraffelike camels mingled with the horses on the grazing plains. [4] During these early epochs of the ice age North America was overrun with mastodons, woolly mammoths, horses, camels, and others. [5]
Camels were domesticated by 5000 B.C. [6]
“Woe upon you, scribes and Pharisees. You are truly blind guides and dumb teachers; you strain out the gnat and swallow the camel. [7]
“You have a saying that it is ‘easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for the heathen to inherit eternal life.’ And I declare that it is as easy for this camel to go through the needle’s eye as for these self-satisfied rich ones to enter the kingdom of heaven”. [8]