The Camel Statue Gets a Cleaning

Art conservator Mark Erdmann is cleaning the camel statue this week on West Campus. The statue, which stands on Science Drive between the Biological Sciences Building and Gross Hall, has become a Duke landmark that adds a unique touch since its arrival 31 years ago.

The bronze camel statue, by British sculptor Jonathan Kingdon, arrived on West Campus in 1993 to honor the late Duke professor of biology Knut Schmidt-Nielsen. Knut Schmidt-Nielsen studied the physiology of the camel’s nose and wrote