Can you name the Top 20 Countries with the Highest Camel Populations? by wasteoflawtime

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World Camel Population Quiz

by wasteoflawtime

Created Apr 1, 2011 in Geography
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	wasteoflawtime:	Apr 1st, 2011 at 13:44 GMT	3 points
	Thanks for taking my quiz! Hope you find these animal population quizzes interesting. I obviously do. (I've now completed World Ass Population, Horse, Sheep, Camel, Goat, and Cattle.) Check them out! Let me know if you have any feedback about this quiz! Sporcle on!

	nyo:	Apr 1st, 2011 at 15:55 GMT	3 points
	Good quiz but why only list the top 10 while the other quizes go to more than 20. Not enough data I suppose. 5 Globes.

	JRL:	Apr 1st, 2011 at 18:56 GMT	3 points
	Australia has a fairly well documented population of feral Camels - some sources put the number at 500,000 and others go even higher. I think it's worthy of a bonus answer.

	wasteoflawtime:	Apr 1st, 2011 at 22:25 GMT	3 points
	@JRL, the data used for this series of quizzes on animal populations is gleaned from population estimates for agricultural animals. So, I suppose I should clarify that point. It's an understood point when you take some of the other quizzes where there are only very small wild populations of these otherwise agricultural animals, but you provide a great example of why I need to make the agricultural element of my data clear. THANK YOU! @nyo: I can't really articulate why I made that determination, but I did... I think I made a mistake on that decision though. Why I didn't keep going to 20? Who knows...? I think I shall remedy these points. Thanks gents/ladies/gent and lady!

	carbon_rod:	Apr 1st, 2011 at 22:41 GMT	1 point
	You've got a bug; I got all 18 answers, and then the Results page shows three more (Iran, Egypt, and a blank).

	wasteoflawtime:	Apr 1st, 2011 at 22:56 GMT	1 point
	@carbon_rod: I was in the midst of editing the quiz when you took it. Sorry! It should be all squared away now! The stats should be screwed up for a while because I upped the quiz from Top 10 to Top 20. (You can thank nyo if your previous perfect 10 score is now only 50%!)

	Riko:	Apr 3rd, 2011 at 10:25 GMT	3 points
	I'm shocked at the least guessed! It is one of the two countries with bactrain (two-hump) camels. Not everyone knows that? ...maybe I've been watching too much 'Planet Earth'. Great quiz!

	tahitiwahini:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 15:32 GMT	1 point
	@wasteoflawtime: Great quiz, but wouldn't this have been a better link to your source: http://faostat.fao.org/site/573/DesktopDefault.aspx?PageID=573#ancor I think it's most useful to players to be able to go directly to the source data, if for example, they are curious about the countries that have camels but not enough to meet the threshold for this quiz. If you can directly link to the data I think it's always better to do so than to merely link to the home page of the source. My contention is that it's easier to get from the data back to the home page (if you want to) then it is to get from the home page to the data (which is really what most people are going to be interested in). @Riko: the quizmaster expanded the quiz from the top 10 to the top 20 and it so happened that the countries you are talking about China and Mongolia (with Bactrian instead of Dromedary camels) were among the added countries so their guessed right numbers can't really be compared to the top 10 countries on an equal footing.

	PublicEnemy:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 16:34 GMT	3 points
	There must be 2,286,000 vegetarians in Ethiopia as well.

	wasteoflawtime:	Apr 13th, 2011 at 23:52 GMT	3 points
	@tahitiwahini, Actually, that page is not the home page, and is the one I used to download the data. It just requires inputting livestock population-->number and then switching to table view. I don't know why the other one is any easier?

	tahitiwahini:	Apr 14th, 2011 at 00:22 GMT	1 point
	@wasteoflawtime: I still think the link I provided is (slightly) better because it doesn't display by default the world food supply data, but I'll concede that I see now how you can get to the data from the link you supplied, and I have to admit it's not that difficult once you realize that Theme can be changed from Food Supply to Livestock Population. It was wrong of me to suggest that it was the home page though, it's not. I do feel a little bad complaining about the source link on this quiz when so many quizzes don't even provide a source link. It's a great source, by the way. Looking forward to the rest of this series.

	MattAtkins:	Apr 9th, 2012 at 16:06 GMT	1 point
	should have a longer time limit, good quiz.