# Camels are thoroughly strange and disgusting

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/camels-are-thoroughly-strange-and-disgusting/613138/61 "2012-03-09T14:18:16Z")

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My toddler is currently in the stage where his favorite activity is to point to pictures of animals, say their names, and make their noises (“Cow! MOOOO! Lion! RAWRRR!”) and he is terribly confused by camels. He really really wants them to be horses. It irritates him when I insist that they are camels. He is fine with giraffes, however.

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