The dromedary in question escaped a Nativity scene, marking the latest colorful and often chaotic chapter in the history of camels in the United States.
-Washington Post, December 17, 2021
Not to bore with more colorful American camel stories- of city boy Philip Tedro aka Hadji Ali aka Hi Jolly’s impersonation of a bedouin camel driver for the US Army in Arizona, of poor little rich girl Doris Duke giving her pet camels Princess and Baby the run of her Newport mansion, of novelist Téa Obreht’s Old West character’s love letter to a camel he rode from Texas to Montana and back again- but a few stories still untold are worth hearing. Says KhairAllah, in Amrīka camels are rare and dogs are common…in Amrīka, camels are fed hay and in Sudan they eat thorns…in Amrīka, camels live in zoos with giraffes and elephants…Gharīb Jiddan, Very Colorful.