This paper explores the relationship between the development of art and sport in the Arabian Peninsula. In particular, it will be argued that both sport and art can be understood in terms of a trajectory from the 'modern' to the 'contemporary'. Modernity and modernism are introduced through an...

Several Dipteran flies are vectors of diseases in the Afro-tropical region. The study was carried out to determine the species abundance of biting and non biting flies prevalent at the Jos Museum Zoological Garden, north central Nigeria. The flies were trapped using Biconical traps during the...

This study was carried out during the events of the 5^th King Abdulaziz Camel Festival (KACF), Saudi Arabia. It was designed to evaluate the infrared thermography (IRT) in 4627 dromedary camels with either injected lips with cosmetic medicine or stretched lips. Ninety camels with healthy lips were...

Camels were used for many years for freight forwarding and transportation. Nowadays they are also bred for sport and show. In Turkey the main aim of camel breeding is for wrestling. As an ancient Turkish tradition, camel wresting is carried out regularly in Western Anatolia every year between...

Hybrid camels, intentional crosses between dromedaries and bactrian camels, are prized for their robustness and endurance. They were the prime vehicles of short and long distance caravan trade in a large area between Greece and Mongolia until the whole-scale introduction of motorized transport....

This article focuses on the idea of "social capital" as a mechanism to discuss and describe the role and importance of camel wrestling in Turkey's larger framework of cultural tourism. There are numerous examples of historic settings being commercialized, including the Great Wall of China, and...

The current status of most West African birds is little known and may change quickly with increasing human population pressure and agriculture, road, tourism, hunting and mining developments. Following documented declines of raptors in Sudan and the Southern Sahel zones, I compared the number of...