Camels refuse to have sexual intercourse with their dams, even when
forced; for once a camel driver, who was in want of a male camel,
veiled the dam and introduced her young to her. When the covering fell
off in the act of copulation, he finished what he was about, and soon
afterwards bit the camel driver to death. It is said also that the king
of Scythia had an excellent mare, which always produced good colts. He
wished to have a colt out of the mare by the best of these horses, and
introduced him for copulation, but he would not do it. When she was
covered up, however, he performed the act unwittingly. As soon as the
form of the mare was shown after copulation, and the horse saw what was
done, he ran away and threw himself down a precipice.