Category:Camels: Difference between revisions

Camels are the greatest mathematicians on the disc and have a natural ability to perfrom quadratic equations. Indeed, the captive specimens in the Palace [[Menagerie]] in [[Ankh-Morpork]] are kept in a unique cage where the bars are horizontal rather than vertical, and large coloured beads are threaded on the bars for the camels to - apparently - randomly move along the bar as the fancy takes them.  As - judging by the names given them by their handlers - the camels take very good care to disguise how intelligent they are, and nobody else appears to have noticed. Apart, perhaps, from [[Vetinari]], who has apparently decreed that his camels should be imprisoned with access to  cage bars that function like an abacus, or maybe a slide rule. This ''might'' be coincidence, but it would be simpler to assume they've been persuaded to do sums for the Patrician...