| 9.3x57 |
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| 05/03/08 10:53 AM |
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Re: CAMEL HUNTS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
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Iqbal
The Australian camels are not stock animals but wild. Brought to Australia for the building of desert railways and telegraph lines, many were released when they were no longer needed. Now there are thousands of them roaming the desert and are a pest animal in some places.
Don't know if it is a true statement, but it was said "Australia is the only place in the world with wild camels. All other places having camels which are domestic stock."
How true is that statement?
Many do not know that dromedaries {i.e. one-humpers...AKA Arabian, not two-humper Bactrian} were also used, or rather, experimented with, by the US Army and some were released into the desert in various areas many years ago. I do not know what all happened to those critters but I have read that ranchers shot them {all?} on sight.
I guess for a time it could be said that there were wild camels here, too??? And donkeys, and horses. Still are some wild horses and donks left, but they are protected now. The horses are known as "mustangs" and the Feds still round them up and sell them from time to time.
I had a mustang for a while. Some are fine, mine happened to be meaner than Hillary at an Obama fundraiser.