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2009-04-15 Arabia

Dubai scientists clone world's first camel

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Posted by Fred 2009-04-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 By the way, there in your region...how are we coming there with the challenges of Gastro-enteritis, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, brucellosis, hepatitus, Avian Influenza, Leishmania, Mumps, Salmonella, and Shigella?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-15 08:11|| 2009-04-15 08:11|| Front Page Top

#2 [Repeatedly bashes head into concrete wall at the thought of people who pedigree their racing livestock and marry their first cousins.]

Well, could be worse, they could pedigree their first cousins, and marry their racing livestock. So, it's not that bad.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-04-15 08:23|| 2009-04-15 08:23|| Front Page Top

#3 [Repeatedly bashes head into concrete wall at the thought of people who pedigree their racing livestock and marry their first cousins.]

Bashing your head on the ground 5 times a day leads to this.

Posted by Beavis 2009-04-15 09:21|| 2009-04-15 09:21|| Front Page Top

#4 bad move, headbangers.

Posted by newc">newc 2009-04-15 11:31|| 2009-04-15 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 On the list of animals I would ever randomly think of cloning... I don't find camels.

Posted by 3dc 2009-04-15 11:47|| 2009-04-15 11:47|| Front Page Top

#6 They do hold camel beauty contests

The legs are long, the eyes are big, the bodies curvaceous.

Contestants in this Saudi-style beauty pageant have all the features you might expect anywhere else in the world, but with one crucial difference -- the competitors are camels.

This week, the Qahtani tribe of western Saudi Arabia has been welcoming entrants to its Mazayen al-Ibl competition, a parade of the "most beautiful camels" in the desolate desert region of Guwei'iyya, 120 km (75 miles) west of Riyadh.

"In Lebanon they have Miss Lebanon," jokes Walid, moderator of the competition's Web site. "Here we have Miss Camel."

Posted by john frum 2009-04-15 12:15|| 2009-04-15 12:15|| Front Page Top

#7 And twinz!

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-04-15 12:37|| 2009-04-15 12:37|| Front Page Top

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