Today’s Amorous Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A woman in Australia has been killed by her pet camel after the animal may have tried to have sex with her. The woman was found dead at the family’s sheep and cattle ranch near the town of Mitchell in Queensland. The woman had been given the camel as a 60th birthday present earlier this year (2007) because of her love of exotic pets. The camel was just 10 months old but already weighed 152kg (336lbs) and had come close to suffocating the family’s pet goat on a number of occasions. On Saturday, the woman apparently became the object of the male camel’s desire. It knocked her to the ground, lay on top of her and displayed what the police delicately described as possible mating behaviour. “I’d say it’s probably been playing, or it may be even a sexual sort of thing,” the Associated Press news agency quoted Queensland police Detective Senior Constable Craig Gregory as saying. Young camels are not normally aggressive but can become more threatening if treated and raised as pets.
Culled from: BBC News
Generously submitted by: Jessica
Oummmm, is that why they call it humping? Sorry, Comtesse, I couldn’t resist the stupid pun.
Okay, I once had a friend who’d spent a lot of time in Saudi Arabia, and he once set me straight on some misconceptions I’d had about camels, mainly that they were placid and passive. Apparently young male camels especially are prone to aggressive, especially when they are in an amorous mood, as which time they also do a lot of foul-smelling spitting and blow a large bubble of pink tissue from their mouths, kind of like a frog puffing up his throat. This is irresistible to lady camels, but pretty disgusting and difficult for humans. Even at ther best of times, the are bad to kick and bite.ns.
Also, my pal informed me that camels are bigots, displaying marked hostility to non Arabs.
I think this lady was nuts to try to make a pet out of one of these things. Especially after he’d nearly killed her goat, you’d think she would wise up and get rid of him. And definitely not get so close that he could lie down on her.