Divyansh says a camel's hump stores water, which is why it can go weeks in the desert without…

Why

Divyansh's belief connects two true observations in a way that feels logical — camels do survive long stretches without water, and they do have this distinctive hump, so it seems natural to link the two directly. What a camel's hump actually stores is FAT, up to about 35 kilograms of it, which the camel's body slowly converts into energy (and, as part of that chemical process, a small amount of water too) when food and water are scarce. The reason camels can go so long between drinks comes from several DIFFERENT adaptations working together — they can drink enormous amounts in one sitting (up to 20 gallons at once) and store that water in their bloodstream rather than the hump, and their bodies are unusually efficient at conserving whatever water they do have. Test it: if the hump genuinely stored water, camels would not need to gulp down such huge amounts of water in a single sitting whenever they do find a water source — the huge one-time drink only makes sense if the water is going somewhere else in the body, not into the hump. His sister is right: the hump stores fat, not water — camel survival comes from several separate adaptations, not one single water tank.