Bansi baby

It's been more than a year that i am in the land of camels, Rajasthan, yet i rode this animal for the first time only yesterday. I was with a friend roaming around a popular tourist centre in Udaipur, a place i must have passed by 50 times if not more, where you can emjoy a camel ride.
I had a strange feeling as i mounted the camel, thinking that i will be riding not my regular motorcycle, but an animal, a living animal. With both of us on top of the camel, for a moment it felt we would be landing straight on our noses from a 10 feet as the camel got up, first on its hind legs and then the front ones. We came to know that the camel was named Bansi, but i aint sure if that means a male or a female, it didn't strike me then to enquire more about it; must be a male though, not sure.
It indeed felt like the camel ride that they have at Essel World as Bansi strode leisurely. As i was adjusting myself to the bumpy ride, i felt, for only a few minutes, like walking in the shoes of those who have to travel miles together on a camel. I read somwhere recently that the Indian army near the Pakistan border maintains a fleet of 700 camels.
As we finished our ride, we had some small talk with the kid taking care of Bansi. I was curious to know if Bansi was able to tell this kid from others, and he said he could. It was a beautiful animal indeed, and i could see this kid liked him very much from the hug he gave to his dear pet. A camel need not be as handsome as a stallion or an Alsatian, but it is a good pet, nonetheless. In fact, i think any mammal, for that matter, would be a good candidate for a pet, but am not sure if an iguana can tell its master from a stranger.