# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/41 "2012-02-24T06:32:08Z")
The most disturbing nature documentary I ever saw was on the spotted hyena. Apparently the female spotted hyena has a pseudo-penis ( a sort-of evolved clitoris) that is larger than the male’s, along with a pseudo-scrotum formed by fused labia. A canal runs through the false penis through which the female urinates, copulates and _gives birth_. In addition, hyena pack members greet each other by licking this pseudo-penis area. Basically, a “greeting blowjob.” ---
**Author:** ![SubaRhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@SubaRhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SubaRhubarb)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2012, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/42 "2012-02-24T15:18:35Z")
> [@Daylate](#): > > Had to add this bit of information. > > Q. Do you know why camels are called “ships of the desert”? > > A. They are always filled with Arab semen. > > And while on this subject (sort of), > > Did you know that the first condom was invented by Arabs in the 13th century by using the intestine of a goat? > > Then the British improved it somewhat in 1876 by first removing the intestine from the goat. > > Sorry - I’ll go away now. That’s random and offensive. Why the hate? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/43 "2012-02-25T10:47:50Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > One hump or two? Dunno… how long until the owner gets back? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/44 "2012-02-25T12:07:34Z")
I wouldn’t mind waking up to a hump every morning. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/45 "2012-02-25T13:09:36Z")
A hijack-but what happened to the American camels (the ones imported by Sec. of War Jefferson Davis)? They were released in the desert southwest-were they all hunted and killed? They seemed to do OK in Australia. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/46 "2012-02-25T13:14:39Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > A hijack-but what happened to the American camels (the ones imported by Sec. of War Jefferson Davis)? They were released in the desert southwest-were they all hunted and killed? > They seemed to do OK in Australia. On a related note, who here’s been to the last resting place of Hi Jolly? ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/47 "2012-02-25T14:32:22Z")
Yeah, they are ugly and smelly. Bt a camel can’t be beat-it is a beast of burden (goes where horses and mules cannot go). It can be eaten, you can drink its milk and make cheese from it, you can use the hair for clothing, or the hides. You can even use the urine (as a hair dressing)! Wht’s not to like about them? ---
**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 27, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/48 "2012-02-27T03:07:48Z")
> [@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) :eek: Pure awesomeness. I may have found my new hobby. ---
**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 27, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/49 "2012-02-27T03:09:17Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > “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. :eek: Well here’s to hoping those SOBs really do have WMDs and get what’s coming to them. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/50 "2012-02-27T03:40:43Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > 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. 1. There are camel farms in California? 2. People drink camel milk? Weeird, man! Personally, the only demand I can imagine for camel milk among non-camels is university students saying, “You won’t believe what I put in that ice cream you just ate!” ---
**Author:** ![dresdenres](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@dresdenres](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dresdenres)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/51 "2012-02-27T19:10:16Z")
I have two questions about “Weeping Camel”. First, how could anyone plan to make a movie like that? How could they plan for the birth of a camel to a non-loving mother? Were they making some non-descript documentary, and somebody points out this phenomenon? And second, what did the locals do before they discovered violins? But it was a good film. > [@Rand\_Rover](#): > > 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:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/52 "2012-02-28T03:37:23Z")
And of course, camels are the best mathematicians on the Disc. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/53 "2012-02-28T23:10:58Z")
> [@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) The coolest thing is that they are playing the music from Lawrence of Arabia. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/54 "2012-02-28T23:58:23Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > The coolest thing is that they are playing the music from Lawrence of Arabia. Well of COURSE… it’s an Arabian horse with that camel! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/55 "2012-02-29T02:05:59Z")
I don’t know from camels. But have you ever hand-fed a giraffe? Now _that’s_ disgusting. Talk about your Wet Willie! ---
**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 29, 2012, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/56 "2012-02-29T02:34:26Z")
Hey now, don’t you go dissin’ giraffes. I LURVE giraffes! ---
**Author:** ![Hallucinex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@Hallucinex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hallucinex)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/57 "2012-02-29T13:35:45Z")
Slept in a tent on a Kazakh camel farm once… a bit difficult to sleep with them making tortured-Wookie noises all night. But would have been terrifying if I’d spotted that thing hanging out of their mouths. I think I only tried camel milk once in the Emirates, but I seem to remember it being surprisingly nice. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/58 "2012-02-29T14:45:28Z")
I like camels, dammit. Great endurance, pretty eyes and soft noses. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/59 "2012-02-29T15:53:08Z")
Are thge Bactrian (“two-humped”) camels nicer than the one-hump style? They like cooler weather-so maybe they are less angry? ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2012, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/60 "2012-03-01T17:33:45Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > Are thge Bactrian (“two-humped”) camels nicer than the one-hump style? > They like cooler weather-so maybe they are less angry? I don’t have any dromedary (one-humper) experience, but I rode a Bactrian camel in Dunhuang, China, and she was really soft and nice, very laid-back (which probably really means “bored out of her skull from carrying tourists around all day”). The people with us who had ridden dromedaries universally said that those were much more ornery and disagreeable. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138.md?page=4)