"Chariot, a 1,500-pound, single-humped camel with spittle hanging from his lips and pompoms in his tail, just won the first-ever beauty contest at Turkey's annual camel-fighting competition," The Wall Street Journal reports. ". . . To the uninitiated, what makes a camel beautiful isn't exactly obvious. But organizers of the Selcuk championship hope the addition of a pageant will draw new enthusiasts to the sport of camel fighting, which is struggling to stay relevant in an increasingly modern and urbanized Turkey. . . . 'Camels are very sophisticated and realize people are watching them, so they're trying to pose,' explained Necidet Durmaz, one of the judges in Selcuk and a jeweller by trade. 'Some camels will stop, open their back legs and wave their tail, or cock their head back and moan - this is the kind of posing we are looking for.'"