The Pigeon Express
Saudi authorities conducted their biggest-ever crackdown on camel beauty contestants that received Botox injections and other artificial touch-ups, Saudi Press Agency reported, with over 40 camels disqualified from the annual pageant. Saudi Arabia’s popular King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, which kicked off earlier this month, invites the breeders of the most beautiful camels to compete for […]
Multiple camel sculptures carved into rock faces in Saudi Arabia are likely to be the oldest large-scale animal reliefs in the world, a study says. When the carvings were first discovered in 2018, researchers estimated they were created about 2,000 years ago. This was based on their similarity to reliefs at Jordan’s famous ancient city […]
In a rather strange move officials of a Chinese city have installed traffic light for camels. The traffic stop became operational on Sunday at the Mingsha Mountain and Crescent Spring in Dunhuang City, Gansu province, state media reported. Officials claim this to be the world’s first traffic light signal for camels. Camel-riding tours are a […]
A man, a dog and five camels have been rescued by police after they fell down a steep slope during a walk in the Australian bush. The 38-year-old man and his party were on a track near the town of Jamieson in Victoria when one of the camels lost its footing. Because they were tied […]
A woman from New Jersey filed a case against travel website after a camel dropped her to the ground in Morocco. Breanne Ayala, 24, filed the lawsuit against TripAdvisor and its subsidiary Viator. In the lawsuit, Breanne stated that she was not briefed about the important safety measures that were to be taken during the […]
Australia will begin five-day campaign to kill thousands of camels in the country as they drink too much water amid the wildfires. Aboriginal officials in the remote northwest of South Australia approved the cull. The government will send helicopters to kill up to 10,000 camels in a five-day campaign starting Wednesday. Marita Baker, an Anangu […]