# Do Camels Have Toes?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-camels-have-toes/240172>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 15, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-camels-have-toes/240172 "2004-04-15T15:09:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Surreal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@Surreal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surreal)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-camels-have-toes/240172/1 "2004-04-15T15:09:51Z")

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When a person wears pants that are much too tight or pulls the waistline up too high, the fabric tends to stretch in some areas and gather in others so as to expose certain anatomical crevices. This fashion faux pas is sometimes referred to as a ‘camel toe’.

Do camels really have toes? What does a camel’s foot actually look like?? Not having seen a camel’s foot, I don’t understand this analogy.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-camels-have-toes/240172/2 "2004-04-15T15:18:03Z")

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camel foot ashtrays  
You can see for yourself where the name came from.

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**Author:** ![Bromley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Bromley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bromley)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-camels-have-toes/240172/3 "2004-04-15T15:20:07Z")

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Hey! Look what I found when looking for [camel toes](http://www.stickontheradio.com/camel_toe_hoof.jpg) 🙂 .

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**Author:** ![GaryM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garym/32/241_2.png) [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-camels-have-toes/240172/4 "2004-04-15T17:19:11Z")

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[http://www.cameltoe.org](http://www.cameltoe.org)

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**Author:** ![Bromley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4da419/32.png) [@Bromley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bromley)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-camels-have-toes/240172/5 "2004-04-15T22:02:16Z")

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It didn’t take long 🙂 . I spotted that site earlier when looking for a real camel’s toe.

In a blatent attempt to post a link to a funny picture by vaguely tying it in to the the OP, I’d like to draw attention to the fact that, as far as [cameltoe.org](http://cameltoe.org) are concerned, there’s a male equivalent. See this [Bon Scott](http://www.cameltoe.org/retro.html) picture (at the bottom).

The [squirrel toe](http://www.cameltoe.org/mens09.html) is too funny not to link to (also at the bottom).