When Joanna McMurry’s husband surprised her with two camels, Sybil and Nadia, to add to their farm, she was shocked.
What would they do with camels?
She hand-fed them at three months old.
She stayed close to them so they would get used to her.
They became her babies.
When they grew, Nadis gave birth to a calf, Amara. Sybil had Omar and then became pregnant with her second calf last fall.
Here, Sylbil and Omar greet each other at a health care facility where they were both being treated separately.
Joanna: “It’s almost like they’re saying, ‘Oh, you’re here, too?'”
Joanna has learned a lot from her camels.
