A Dozen Camels Disqualified From Saudi Beauty Pageant Over Botox Injections
Some pageant contestants hit a hump in the road this week. That is, a camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia disqualified a dozen camels for receiving Botox injections to make them more attractive.
Saudi media reported that a veterinarian was caught performing plastic surgery on the camels a few days before the pageant, according to UAE's The National. In addition to the injections, the clinic was surgically reducing the size of the animals' ears to make them appear more delicate.
"They use Botox for the lips, the nose, the upper lips, the lower lips and even the jaw," Ali Al Mazrouei, a regular at such festivals and the son of a prominent Emirati breeder, told the newspaper. "It makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it's like, 'Oh look at how big that head is. It has big lips, a big nose.' "
Real money is at stake: About $57 million is awarded to winners of the contests and camel races, The National reports, with more than $31.8 million in prizes for just the pageants.
Also at The New York Times, Reuters, and Newsweek.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @06:34PM (2 children)
Cats bring disease. Via the long-term brain effects of cat-transmitted disease, we get significant amounts of car accidents and schizophrenia.
Dogs are better.
Pale animals are tamer than dark ones. No kidding, and we even know the mechanism. (migration of neural stem cells if I remember right)
Labrador retrievers are relatively nice to begin with. They also have short hair, which makes them much less likely to get disgusting.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 25 2018, @11:07PM
Racist scum detected
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Friday January 26 2018, @01:20AM
Are you sure it's not "splotchiness" you're thinking of rather than paleness? (Think cows, the iconic "spot", etc - patterns that don't occur in the wild.) Splotchiness is caused by the same developmental hormones that cause infant mammals to remain receptive to unfamiliar stimuli for a longer period, and be less defensive as adults, and the neural stem cell thing sounds familiar as well. The Russian speed-domesticated foxes demonstrate the same splotchiness - in fact I think that's what helped researchers zero in on the precise genes that change it.