A Camel´s Discovery

As a normal camel, Donk had something not normal on his camel´s mind. He was raised in a common camel´s family with an appropriate education. However, one day his parents shared with him a family secret, that 3000 years ago, one of his ancestors left a legacy somewhere in the desert. The ancestor had been an archconservative old camel, yet very wise at that time. Nevertheless, his parents mentioned that the legacy was a preliminary draft for a great invention for the human society in the future.

“But how did this have anything to do with our camels?” Donk had always wondered. Finally one day his overwhelming curiosity drove him to make up his mind. “I’m going to find out, I need to know it.” So right after his decision was made, he left home immediately that day, for sure, with complete preparation.

Bearing the intolerable weather, Donk passed through thousands of rough mountains for 47 days, with his iron will, on the 48^th day. He finally arrived at his destination. There was vast area of green trees with wild flowers everywhere. In the middle of the picture, there was a vivid river. Donk saw something very conspicuous in the middle of the river. He leaned closer, and he was very cheerful. “It is the legacy, this is it!” He repeated time and time again with satisfaction. It was a primitive manuscript. The content inside was not very legible; however, Donk found his way to read it, as it was completely unambiguous for him, in spite of its ancient scrip. Donk absorbed the idea of this gift from his ancestor. It was about how camels’ humps correlated to a great human invention.

As camels’ humps can restore food and energy, so can humans do the same thing. It described in details how humans can take good advantage of renewable sources, such as solar energy, wind, water etc. And how humans can absorb and later restore them and use them when necessary.

Donk stood stunned with his mouth wide open. He had learnt a bit about how human society now is short of energy and there are lots of environmental problems going on. So he decided to reveal his discovery to the humans as soon as he got back home. And no wonder he did a great contribution to the human society. And he won Nobel Prize that year, and he was the first camel who won Nobel Prize, and of course, he became rich and famous.