# Camels are thoroughly strange and disgusting **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 17, 2012, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138 "2012-02-17T14:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/21 "2012-02-18T02:26:20Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > Adding some camel love. I have been around several nice, friendly camels. Camels like me for some reason. We used to have a bacterain camel at our local zoo named Cashmeir who adored me for some reason- he would come running to me making that loud honking sound. (I used to hang out at the zoo almost every weekend) The keeper allowed me to feed him slices of apple and said he didn’t take up with anyone else like that. > > I love camels! I have to admit, that sounds insanely cute. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/22 "2012-02-18T03:48:55Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > Adding some camel love. I have been around several nice, friendly camels. Camels like me for some reason. We used to have a bacterain camel at our local zoo named Cashmeir who adored me for some reason- he would come running to me making that loud honking sound. (I used to hang out at the zoo almost every weekend) The keeper allowed me to feed him slices of apple and said he didn’t take up with anyone else like that. > > I love camels! Yeah I love camels too. I bawled like a baby watching The Story of the Weeping Camel. Camel’s just have an awesome look and way about them, like they know they’re weird and don’t give a shit. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/23 "2012-02-18T06:48:00Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > I have to admit, that sounds insanely cute. Oh, it was cute! He would close his eyes and rub his head on me and make these contented little humming noises at me, even when I didn’t have a treat for him. I always wished I could smuggle him out of the zoo. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/24 "2012-02-18T07:54:14Z")
> [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > Yeah I love camels too. I bawled like a baby watching The Story of the Weeping Camel. Oh god yeah. I tear up even thinking about it. Poor little camel! ☹ Anyone who has even a passing interest in camels and hasn’t seen that movie has to see that movie. And everyone else should see it too. It’s such an innovative and weird idea for a movie, and quite unlike anything else I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [February 20, 2012, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/25 "2012-02-20T07:45:40Z")
How the camel got his hump. (Not the way Kipling told it.) NSFW. [spoiler]The sexual drive of the Camel Is stronger than anyone thinks. He’s lived for years in the desert, And he tried to seduce the Sphinx. But the Sphinx’s center of pleasure Lies buried deep in the Nile, Which accounts for the hump on the Camel And the Sphinx’s inscrutable smile. – Anonymous [/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/26 "2012-02-21T17:12:35Z")
I just had to share this… a camel doing dressage! He even does flying lead changes! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/eFe-SoS-HOQ/hqdefault.jpg "Camel Dressage!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFe-SoS-HOQ) ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/27 "2012-02-21T17:58:24Z")
On the History Channel show _Mounted in Alaska_ miss Teen Alaska brought in a camel pelt for taxidermy. She hunted it and they showed a picture of her with a rifle standing over the camel right after the kill. Who da thunk they hunting camels 😕 :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/28 "2012-02-21T18:05:01Z")
Didja know [camels are ticklish?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5xebCq6lfk) ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/29 "2012-02-21T18:13:00Z")
> [@Lukeinva](#): > > On the History Channel show _Mounted in Alaska_ miss Teen Alaska brought in a camel pelt for taxidermy. She hunted it and they showed a picture of her with a rifle standing over the camel right after the kill. > > Who da thunk they hunting camels 😕 :eek: “Bizarre Foods” had an episode in Syria where they slaughtered and butchered a camel, then made a tasty sausage for the host. It’s a meat animal in that part of the world. And “Dirty Jobs” had an episode where he went to a camel farm in California and milked a camel. Apparently the milk is in high demand for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/30 "2012-02-21T18:47:52Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > The creepy [camel raspberry.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zjtb5wUF8A&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLF98B1D85CAF32E11) It’s not a tongue. It’s some special thing that exists just so they can do that with it. Fukkin’ weird. I had never seen such a thing, and after having watched this, I was compelled, in the interest of fighting my own ignorance, to find out more. And [here](http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/11/camel_dhula_gazelle_palatal_sac.php)’s what I found. “Vesica palatina” is too lovely a term for such hideous protuberance. You’re welcome. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/31 "2012-02-22T15:53:36Z")
Camels are driving hazards - [Camels give Austrian motorists the hump](http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/221088-camels-give-austrian-motorists-the-hump) ---
**Author:** ![velvetjones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5f9b8f/32.png) [@velvetjones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velvetjones)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/32 "2012-02-22T16:19:03Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Their toes are universally admired. Made me laugh out loud at work, small office, now everyone wants to know what’s so funny. Thanks. I will never be able to explain this. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/33 "2012-02-22T16:57:07Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > I had never seen such a thing, and after having watched this, I was compelled, in the interest of fighting my own ignorance, to find out more. And [here](http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2010/11/camel_dhula_gazelle_palatal_sac.php)’s what I found. “Vesica palatina” is too lovely a term for such hideous protuberance. > > You’re welcome. 🙂 Thank you! An excellent example of ignorance fought, well done! (What was your search term? Camel and sexual display? Camel and dangling icky thing?) ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/34 "2012-02-22T18:05:31Z")
I have never, ever heard of a weird camel protuberance until reading this thread, and I watch a lot of nature and zoology shows. From everyone’s description, I think I’ll remain ignorant. Although I can watch that species of seal that blows a big red balloon on its nose and flops it around. It’s a bit gross but not horrific. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/35 "2012-02-22T23:27:40Z")
> [@PapSett](#): > > I just had to share this… a camel doing dressage! He even does flying lead changes! > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFe-SoS-HOQ&feature=share](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFe-SoS-HOQ&feature=share) Oh, my. That’s … well, that’s something else, for sure. Thanks for sharing! ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/36 "2012-02-22T23:32:12Z")
I have used camels as a mode of transportation twice … ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/37 "2012-02-22T23:54:02Z")
> [@freckafree](#): > > “Vesica palatina” is too lovely a term for such hideous protuberance. My limited knowledge of Latin tells me that the translation into English brings us a term that is almost worse than the thing itself: “palate kidney”. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/38 "2012-02-23T00:07:20Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > I have never, ever heard of a weird camel protuberance until reading this thread, and I watch a lot of nature and zoology shows. From everyone’s description, I think I’ll remain ignorant. > > Although I can watch that species of seal that blows a big red balloon on its nose and flops it around. It’s a bit gross but not horrific. It’s kind of startlingly like that, actually. And ditto on the nature shows and this appalling gap in my informational bank on camels. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/39 "2012-02-23T01:55:26Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > Thank you! An excellent example of ignorance fought, well done! > > (What was your search term? Camel and sexual display? Camel and dangling icky thing?) After some poorly-chosen terms that yielded nothing but hits referencing camel toes, I think “male camel” + raspberry was what got me enough information to search for “male camel” + palate. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2012, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/40 "2012-02-23T23:56:04Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > The creepy [camel raspberry.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zjtb5wUF8A&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLF98B1D85CAF32E11) It’s not a tongue. It’s some special thing that exists just so they can do that with it. Fukkin’ weird. Good lord, that’s terrible. On the other hand, it just proved an effective childrearing technique. “Kid, get off the table! You better get off or I’m gonna show you that camel video again.” She got off the table. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138.md?page=3)