How Do You Judge a Camel Beauty Pageant?

When you think of the most beautiful animal in the world, chances are you’re probably not picturing a camel. But nonetheless, there are such things as camel beauty pageants. 

On the Arabian peninsula, thousands of one-humped or dromedary camels compete to become “Miss Camel” each year. But how do they win? What makes a camel beautiful? How do these pageants even work?

Tess was joined by Professor Jaime Gongora from Sydney University – a specialist in Animal and Wildlife Genetics and Genomics to answer these camel curiosities!

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