While hunting for camels for Lothi, I came across this fascinating and educational article:
Your First Camel. Although it was written in 2004, I feel it is even more timely now.
A few sample quotes:
" ... sooner or later there will be no more oil. Oily people are here to stay but no more oil. If we could refine the oil from oily people that would be something but we can't. ... Camels occur naturally in nature just like oil but, unlike oil, camels are renewable."
"Palaeontologists still debate to this day whether the carnivorous Humpadactyl could actually fly. What is known for certain from experiments undertaken in 1975 out of the back of a Boeing 737 conversion over Lebanon is that they definitely can't now."
"It is only in more recent times that the Fiat Punto has supplanted the camel as the status symbol of choice among the Arabic people and that's only because of the air conditioning."
"As everybody knows, camels store fat in their humps allowing them to survive for up to three months without food or water. Of course, at the end of three months, they'll have the figure of a supermodel and the carrying capability of a supermodel. And the face of a supermodel. They won't be any use as supermodels though because most designers don't work with quadrupeds. Except Gaultier."
Enough. Go read it yourself.
Parking would no longer be a problem... but training the thing not to bite the policemen might be a challenge! LOL! 
