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.”
That’s random and offensive. Why the hate?
Dunno… how long until the owner gets back?
I wouldn’t mind waking up to a hump every morning.
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?
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?
:eek: Pure awesomeness. I may have found my new hobby.
:eek: Well here’s to hoping those SOBs really do have WMDs and get what’s coming to them.
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!”
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.
And of course, camels are the best mathematicians on the Disc.
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! 
I don’t know from camels. But have you ever hand-fed a giraffe? Now that’s disgusting. Talk about your Wet Willie!
Hey now, don’t you go dissin’ giraffes. I LURVE giraffes!
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.
I like camels, dammit. Great endurance, pretty eyes and soft noses.
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.