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[PHOTOS] Camels disqualified from beauty contest because they used Botox
A group of 12 Saudi camels were disqualified and banned from a beauty contest after it was discovered they had used Botox.
The annual King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Saudi Arabia has been tarnished by the attempted violation of the strict rules in Riyadh.
The competition which attracts the sum of approximately £40million as cash prize is a big temptation for the owners of the camels to cheat.
The chief judge, Fawzan al-Madi said that “Camels that are found with drugs in lips, shaved, dyed in any parts of the body, or with changes from natural form are not allowed.”
“The camel is a symbol of Saudi Arabia. We used to preserve it out of necessity, now we preserve it as a pastime.”
According to metro.co.uk, the authorities are trying to smooth the path for reform by emphasising traditional aspects of their culture in a bid to diversify the economy away from crude oil that has been its lifeblood for decades.
The authorities have ramped up the country’s annual month-long camel festival, which was relocated last year from the remote desert to the outskirts of the capital.
There are food stalls and souvenir shops, a petting zoo featuring the world’s tallest and shortest camels, a museum with life-size sand sculptures of camels, tents for tasting camel’s milk and viewing camel-hair textiles, and a planetarium showing how Arabs rode camels through the desert guided by the stars.
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