Each year, the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina, hosts Christmas at the Library to celebrate the birth of Christ. Festivities include a live nativity. This is part 1 of a four-part series featuring the unique personalities of the nativity animals.
The animals come from Sam’s Path Petting Zoo in northeast Georgia, a mobile zoo run by Jeff and Jodi Gray.
Milo is the taller of the two camels at this year’s Christmas at the Library nativity scene. He’s also the more social. The 4-year-old adolescent doesn’t like being by himself, and will pace back and forth doing a “camel dance” if he gets lonely, owner Jodi Gray said. But a bowl of carrots is a surefire way to this 700-pounder’s heart. When it’s chow time, Milo will pick up his bowl of carrots with his mouth, tilt it back and guzzle them down, seemingly without chewing. When he’s done, he’ll grunt in satisfaction and take a break.
Fun fact? Camels can live to be 50 years old.
Christmas at the Library is open through Dec. 23, Monday through Thursday, 9:30 a.m. – 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – 10 p.m.
See the animals up close. Plan your visit to Christmas at the Library.
Meet Roc the kangaroo from part 2 of the nativity series, Zak the yak from part 3 and Lucy the donkey from part 4.
