With its head thrown back, mouth open, tongue rolled up as if about to break into song, and a platform inches wide with a miniature of an eight-person band perched atop its humps, it looks like the circus came to town when this camel arrived!

(Cover: The figurine named "Sancai Camel with Musicians" from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) is currently kept at the Shaanxi History Museum in Xi'an, northwest China's Shaanxi Province. /CGTN)