More than 40 camels in a beauty pageant for these beneficial animals in Saudi Arabia have been disqualified for botox beauty injections and other tricks. It was reported by the state news agency Saudi Press Agency, adding that this number of frauds is a record.
The Camel Beauty Contest is one of the main events of the annual King Abdulaziz Festival, which also includes camel races, sales and other festive events that attract many spectators. The event has a prize pool of $ 66 million alone, prompting dishonest breeders to go for all sorts of tricks.
Camels with long drooping lips, a large nose and a well-shaped hump are considered the most beautiful. To meet beauty standards, animals are pumped up muscles with hormones, their noses and lips are stretched, and even body parts are pulled with rubber bands to restrict blood flow. In response, festival organizers use “cutting edge technology” such as X-rays and ultrasound scanners to detect and roughly punish fraudsters.
Source: Rosbalt
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