A person looks at a camel and focuses on its most obvious oddity, the hump. It seems like a strange feature, maybe even a little ridiculous. But then the speaker catches the camel looking back with the same kind of curiosity. What seemed like a one-sided judgment suddenly goes both ways. The camel may have a hump, but the human, from the camel’s point of view, is probably just as peculiar.
The mood is light and playful, but there is a quiet idea underneath: oddness depends on who is doing the looking. We tend to assume our own appearance is normal and other creatures are the strange ones, yet the camel has no reason to agree. The poem turns a tiny moment of eye contact into a gentle reminder that every observer is also observed, and every “weird” trait might simply be a matter of perspective.