* YOU BEEN SNAP * Who's got the hump? Grumpy camel snaps at vet (but don't worry, it's just an illusion)"

*BY FLORA LYIMO DESIGNER*

At first glance, this snappy camel appears to be taking revenge on a vet by swallowing her head.
But look closely, and it's clear that the medic is actually leaning behind the creature's enormous jaw to give it a pedicure.
The incredible picture is one of the winning entries in a competition to celebrate the work of vets around the world.
Shots of the camel having its treatment, a gorilla holding hands with a vet and a stork having its beak mended all came top in the contest to mark World Veterinary Year 2011.

Hoof you looking at? The camel appears to swallow the vet's head but she is actually leaning over to give the creature a pedicure

More than 2,500 people from across the globe, including 50 from the UK, entered the competition to highlight the important role played by vets.
'The idea of the competition was to promote the veterinary profession, both in terms of vets' role in society and from farm to fork," said a competition spokesman.
'They have a significant, but often silent, influence on everybody's daily lives.'
Artist Genoveva Kriechbaum, 36, from Austria, won the Middle East category with her remarkable picture of a camel having a pedicure in the United Arab Emirates.
The camel had to be sedated for the procedure and the picture shows that it needed the strength of five men and a woman to get her into position.
The winner of the Africa section is a beautiful picture of a vet tenderly holding hands with a silverback mountain gorilla, taken by 31-year-old American Molly Feltner.
The communications officer, who works in Rwanda cleverly captured gorilla doctor Jan Ramer with silverback Mukunda who had to be relocated from a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo back to his home in Virunga National Park.

Working together: The tender moment that vet Jan Ramer placed her hand inside that of Mukunda, a silverback mountain gorilla, was captured by Molly Feltner

Precision: The winning picture shows Dr. Deøri Jaønos, the vet of the Bird Hospital of Hortobaøgy, Hungary, treating an injured stork as children look on

'Mukunda had wandered some 10km from the safety of the national park and was raiding crops in the village of Kibumba, surrounded by thousands of local people,' she said.
'For the safety of the people and of Mukunda, who would probably been killed by the villagers, the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project (MGVP) decided to perform a medical intervention to move him back to the park.
'MGVP is a non-profit American organisation which works in the three countries where the remaining 800 mountain gorillas live.
'It's international team of veterinarians are known as gorilla doctors and are the only group providing wild mountain gorillas with life-saving care.'
Student Ariel Corvalan Herrera, 27, from Chile, won the Americas category with a photo of a vet examining a manatee in Playa del Carmen in Mexico.

Nature: Medics don wet suits and use a stethoscope to examine a large manatee in water in Playa del Carmen in Mexico

While winning photographer Istvan Konyhas, 40, from Hungary took a picture of a stork which had injured its beak in a traffic accident.
'Its mandible had been injured and Dr Deri Janos, the veterinary at the bird hospital and his colleague tried to reinstate the parts of the stork's beak with dental treatment,' he said.
Entries from the UK included a photo of an equine vet by Alex Richmond, from Manchester and a picture by Pandora Maund, from Sheffield, which shows a vet waiting with Spike the horse who has a tumour on his eye.
She said: 'Although this image is quite disturbing l feel it reflects the mood of the situation and the bravery of this beautiful horse and the patience of the vet.'
The 'vets in your daily life' contest was organised by the European Commission's Directorate General for Health and Consumers and the World Organisation for Animal Health.
Each of the five winners will receive £900 in photographic equipment and attend an awards ceremony in Brussels on May 19.