Reading the last book in the Icewind Dale trilogy, about halfway through the book. Okay, I can shrug off random dragon cameos that have no relevance to anything in the story, the flat characterization and the flimsy worldbuilding, but my suspension of disbelief just got overloaded and snapped by a camel.

The protagonist party are in the stereotypical fantasy south (tm) and have bought camels to proceed on their journey, and one of them gets bitten by his dromedary to show what a nuisance the animal is, and the book describes it as having "blunt teeth", and boy my brain ain't taking it.

Like, excuse the entire fuck out of me, have you SEEN dromedary teeth??? Those things have FANGS! And they are VICIOUS!

I'm just flashbacking to the news many years ago when a dromedary killed a wild ass stallion in the Helsinki zoo, that's not a harmless little nuisance, that's a huge arse beast fully capable of maiming you.

Seriously, google dromedary skull and marvel at their weaponry, that's such a great design.

"Blunt teeht" my arse...

One-Humped Camel by Louis A. Sargent. From Wild Beasts of the World, Vol. Two. Written by Frank Finn, published in 1909.

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Carlos Estévez (Cuban, 1969), Cruzar en el Desierto, 1995. Watercolor, gouache and crayon on paper, 27½ × 39½ in.

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Dromedary camel By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s

A dromedary (Camelus dromedarius) amongst the brush in Morocco

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Dromedary camel Camelus dromedarius

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Si j’avais quatres dromedaires was originally produced for German television and was not seen in France until the mid-1970s. It remains unknown to the general public and was for a long time quite fugitive even for specialists; some discussions seem to have less to…

Dromedary camel (Camelus dromedarius)

This species of camel is a textbook case of evolution for dry desert environments. Despite this, wild dromedary camels went extinct more than a thousand years ago; the only living individuals are domesticated. Wild camels once ranged in desert habitats from North Africa to Western Asia, eating dry, spiny plants and adapted to go many days without water or food. They were domesticated thousands of years ago, and since then have served as important pack animals and livestock, especially in the African and Asian regions where they used to live wild. They have also played a role in the recent history of Australia, once used by non-indigenous peoples to cross the great central deserts, and now found as an invasive species across the northwest.

The Quizzer Book of Knowledge: Nature. Written and edited by George Beal. 1978.

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Djordje Ozbolt (Serbian, 1967), Desert Blues, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120 cm.

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Dromedary camels By: Unknown photographer From: Wildlife Fact-File 1990s