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NewsDecember 9, 2016

WINSLOW, Maine -- A horse and a camel at a Maine petting zoo have formed an unlikely friendship. The 5-year-old camel, Caesar, at the Pony X-Press Zoo in Winslow has become a guide for Dolly the horse, who is blind. The zoo's Ed Papsis told WGME-TV that Dolly's probably the only horse with "a seeing-eye camel." Dolly relies on the camel and follows him around. She whinnys for him if he's not nearby, and he bellows back for her...

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WINSLOW, Maine -- A horse and a camel at a Maine petting zoo have formed an unlikely friendship. The 5-year-old camel, Caesar, at the Pony X-Press Zoo in Winslow has become a guide for Dolly the horse, who is blind. The zoo's Ed Papsis told WGME-TV that Dolly's probably the only horse with "a seeing-eye camel." Dolly relies on the camel and follows him around. She whinnys for him if he's not nearby, and he bellows back for her.

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