There was a camel eating hoagie rolls in Northern Liberties yesterday. Yes, a camel.

The recent heat in Philly may have coaxed out some new wildlife to Northern Liberties on Monday: Residents were greeted with the sight of a camel eating a baguette around Second Street and Fairmount Avenue.

And it wasn’t even hump day.

Pearl, the camel, wasn’t just there to take in the Philly sights, but might have been hanging out in NoLibs for a photo shoot, according to reports from Billy Penn and Philly Voice. Some social media users have said the photoshoot was for Petit Clair, a children’s clothing store, but the company did not return a request for comment.

Pearl appeared with her handler and was friendly to the children and other people who stopped and stared at the odd sight.

Sarah McAnulty, who was in a coworking space in Fishtown, spotted the camel on her coffee break, munching on hoagie rolls from Kaplan’s New Model Bakery while being guarded by police.

“I was just shocked that it was eating hoagie rolls, I thought that was the funniest thing I had seen in a while,” McAnulty said. “I didn’t think camels ate hoagies. I stood there for a while, because the whole scene was pretty funny, they had like a police officer there for the camel … people kept just stopping dead in their tracks and watching the hilarity ensue.”

Meghan Gallagher, another Fishtown resident, spotted the dromedary while she was walking home, and said she initially thought it was a horse. Upon closer inspection, she said she realized it was a camel, and had to take a video.

“It definitely struck some confusion, because I wasn’t exactly sure what I was really looking at,” Gallagher said. “There was a handful of children and adults that were gathered around, a bunch of loaves of bread that were sitting on a cooling rack that everyone seems to be really interested in, and then maybe 20 feet past that was this one, singular camel with a handful of bags and purses draped over it as if it was going to be selling those bags.”

Gallagher added that while it was a little alarming to see a camel in the middle ofa hot summer day in Philadelphia, she appreciated the change in scenery on her walk home.

In honor of the recent social media stardom of Pearl and Kaplan’s bread, Kaplan’s New Model Bakery said it will host a free bread giveaway on Thursday, July 20 from 10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

The first 100 people at the bakery will receive a free baguette or Kaplan’s famous rye bread — the same bread that Pearl, the camel enjoyed Monday.

McAnulty also said the whole scene seemed almost unbelievable, had she not witnessed it herself. But she was glad to see people talking and bonding over the out-of-place camel.