TIL camels have teeth you'd expect from a carnivore

Cacti: Evolution gave us needles to protect us from being eaten!

Camels: haha eating needles go brrrrr

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So satisfying

cronch cronch cronch

I've seen camels eat cacti before, but it doesn't make it easier to watch them do it. They don't seem to mind much though. Perhaps it's like a chili or wasabi to them.

They have that weird throat bag that they cough up too, when they’re looking to fuc.

And here I am worried about picking a prickly pear from the cactus in the front yard.

Now I'm hungry. It looks delicious.

panini

I would imagine that aliens would look at us the same way when it comes to spicy food.

Human: eats a Death Pepper

Alien: "Why would you eat a food whose name has death in it and gives you chemical burns?"

Human: "The citrus hints are SO YUMMY!"

Alien: shocked pikachu face

I saw a clip of some guy punching a camel in the head, trying to get it to move (or something).

The camel finally snapped at him, got hold of an arm or shoulder, and just ragdolled him, eventually settling in to rip chunks off while pinning his torso.

Yes

I think there is also the molars and general jaw shape to consider. Carnivores are not just identified by their fangs, they have generally a different structure and layout of their jaws that is made to lock into a prey animal or tear out pieces of flesh.

In contrast, many herbivores have teeth laid out to grind down plant matter (think cows or goats) and their mouths are laid out to chew off vegetation with very articulated lips to assist. Even if these camels have pointy fangs, the rest of their mouth would indicate they eat primarily plants.

They do have dentals that are extremely specialized for eating vegetation that really doesn't want to be eaten. The large canini are only a trait of males from which we could very reasonably determine that they're used for intraspecific fights if we have both male and female fossils available.
Actually I would consider the anatomy of a camels skull one of the easiest to determine the habits of the species off due to its very specific adaptions.

We can determine that they live in an area with rough vegetation which are to that degree only arid climate zones. That requires high mobility to scan the area for scarce vegetation and even scarcer water sources. You'd probably also assume they move in larger groups if fighting is so relevant for males that huge fangs turned into a selected trait. From that alone you can make many assumptions that probably align with the actual lifestyle of those animals.

That's actually a good question. I'm no dental expert mind you, but looking at the highly different diets some species have even compared to close relatives, I wouldn't be surprised if that happened to extinct species as well. I mean, look at bears for example - grizzly, polar bear, brown bear .... panda. Suddenly there is a vegan in the group, but with the same type of carnivore teeth.

Fron what I've read, there are differences in breeds (alpacas for example have very small canines compared to other species), females have smaller canines than males (on average), and they're also usually removed / clipped for domesticated camelids (example with an alpaca: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyXSrIUkFNg)

Yep, fake as hell

Because it really whips the Llama’s ass

except the argument is usually that we have canines, therefore we must eat meat.