I have to admit, that sounds insanely cute.
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.
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.
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.
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]
I just had to share this… a camel doing dressage! He even does flying lead changes!
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:
Didja know camels are ticklish?
“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.
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’s what I found. “Vesica palatina” is too lovely a term for such hideous protuberance.
You’re welcome. 
Camels are driving hazards - Camels give Austrian motorists the hump
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.
Thank you! An excellent example of ignorance fought, well done!
(What was your search term? Camel and sexual display? Camel and dangling icky thing?)
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.
Oh, my. That’s … well, that’s something else, for sure. Thanks for sharing!
I have used camels as a mode of transportation twice …
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”.
It’s kind of startlingly like that, actually. And ditto on the nature shows and this appalling gap in my informational bank on camels.
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.
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.