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A Million Camels Plague Australia
nationalgeographic ^
| October 26 2009
Posted on 10/27/2009 12:21:19 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Wild dromedary camels, brought to Australia in the mid-19th century to help explore and develop the outback, were left to breed and survive on their own. Now they number a million in the wild and have become pests, officials say.
Camels are not usually associated with Australia, but Australia is home to the largest herd of feral camels in the world.
About 12,000 dromedary camels were brought to Australia in the mid-19th century to carry people and supplies during the exploration and development of the Interior but after the advent of the automobile, they were abandoned and left to fend for themselves.
The camels adapted very well on their own.
Today, the camels are found scattered throughout the interior, from Western Australia to Queensland, Recent research shows that the total population has reached staggering numbers.....
TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: australia; camel; camels; jpb
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To: JoeProBono
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:22:12 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: JoeProBono
...boy if they ever cross breed them with those mice that run rapid ...are they in trouble!
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:24:21 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Lurker
4
posted on
10/27/2009 12:24:29 PM PDT
by
djf
(Grasshopper: The game is rigged. Patience takes forever to learn. You're so screwed!!)
To: JoeProBono
A Million Camels Plague AustraliaWell, I trade them a million feral camels plaguing them for one feral Marxist plaguing us.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:25:56 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
(Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
To: Lurker
There’s a pic out there of a BBQed camel. I believe it set some world record for largest BBQ. Of course that doesn’t mean that anyone ate it.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:26:40 PM PDT
by
east1234
(It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
To: Obadiah
If you think the camels are bad, wait until you have a flock of Cockatoos in the tree outside of your motel room!
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:27:38 PM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
("Don't fire unless fired upon, but it they mean to have a war, let it begin here." J Parker, 1775)
To: east1234
Warning: No pictures of The Lezcow allowed.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:28:19 PM PDT
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: Redleg Duke
Roo tastes pretty good. A little grainy, but not bad.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:28:23 PM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
("Don't fire unless fired upon, but it they mean to have a war, let it begin here." J Parker, 1775)
To: Lurker
To: JoeProBono
***The camels adapted very well on their own.***
You mean to tell me ...they got no gubmint handouts? no food stamps? no Medicaid? no condoms?
Dagnabbit!!
God loves camels;)
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:28:31 PM PDT
by
sodpoodle
(Never give up- Keep Up!!!)
To: Doogle
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:28:46 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Lurker
Is camel good eating?No. Very poor manners.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:28:48 PM PDT
by
paulycy
(Predatory Pricing = Public Option = Unethical Competition.)
To: Doogle
Why not sell them as brides to Arabs who won’t likely have a real woman? We may very well pull out of this recession if they do that!
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:29:21 PM PDT
by
Niuhuru
(The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
To: JoeProBono
Sounds like they need some C-130 gunships to just mow them down.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:29:52 PM PDT
by
garyhope
(It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
To: Obadiah
“Well, I trade them a million feral camels plaguing them for one feral Marxist plaguing us.”
Touche’
Mel
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:30:23 PM PDT
by
melsec
(A Proud Aussie)
To: Lurker
Is camel good eating? Yes it is. We were in Australia earlier this year for a month, seeing the sights, riding the Ghan Train, Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, Ayer's Rock, Etc., Etc., Etc.
Almost all the restaurants (with the exception of McDonalds) have camel on the menu. It has the color, texture, and taste of veal. I would challenge you to tell the difference in a blind study.
One of our guides said that Australia is the only country in the world now that exports live camels. Especially back to the middle East.
You see camel tracks everywhere out in the outback. They and kangaroos are taking over. The biggest hazard on many of the golf courses are kangaroos. They love the easy grazing.
To: east1234
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:31:00 PM PDT
by
EternalVigilance
(If they won't "secure the Blessings of Liberty to Posterity," they won't secure yours either.)
To: Lurker
bany camel stew
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:31:03 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Think that’s bad? The USA had 60,000,000 donkeys last November and the resulting devastation has been appalling!
To: Lurker
Is camel good eating?
People in Egypt seem to think so. Since Australia slaughters 25,000 per year, they ought to sell them to the Egyptians.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:31:54 PM PDT
by
aruanan
To: Redleg Duke
I can almost top the cockatoos. Two dozen peacocks right outside your window.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:31:56 PM PDT
by
EggsAckley
(There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply. W.C. Fields)
To: Lurker
Only the toe.
Seriously, camel IS good eating. In many parts of the Middle East you see the meat section has Beef/ Chicken/ Camel.
Australia is a case study in the introduction of new species to an isolated ecology. There is a good reason why marsupials (other than the opossum) are extinct everywhere but Australia, and the importation of placental mammals was a big wake up bell... ‘ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for THEE marsupials’.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:33:30 PM PDT
by
allmendream
(Wealth is EARNED not distributed, so how could it be RE-distributed?)
To: EternalVigilance
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:33:59 PM PDT
by
east1234
(It's the borders stupid! My new environmentalist inspired tagline: cut, kill, dig and drill)
To: JoeProBono
Maybe we could import them to use as green transportation. I’d rather ride a camel than one of those tiny electric tuna can cars.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:34:25 PM PDT
by
giotto
To: Obadiah
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:34:55 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: ProudFossil
Stands to reason, I mean they are grazers. In general, and this is an oversimplification, vegetarian type animals can be pretty tasty, but carnivores are alot nastier.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:35:14 PM PDT
by
djf
(Grasshopper: The game is rigged. Patience takes forever to learn. You're so screwed!!)
To: ProudFossil
Very interesting.
It’s amazing how some species thrive all on their own.
...then there’s the American college student!
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:37:03 PM PDT
by
Palladin
(The Obama Administration: "A Czar Too Far")
To: EggsAckley
Do you live near Janet Reno?
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:38:18 PM PDT
by
Palladin
(The Obama Administration: "A Czar Too Far")
To: ProudFossil
The camels are like the rabbits, only bigger
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:38:41 PM PDT
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(He said red, yellow, black or white, All are equal in his sight, Mmm, mmm, mm!, Barack Hussein Obama)
To: JoeProBono
On the one hand it would be great to live in Australia with all the plauge species they have to shoot, on the other hand they have strict gun laws that make shooting them difficult.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:41:38 PM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
To: 17th Miss Regt
"The USA had 60,000,000 donkeys last November"
I know its not zoologically correct, but I consider them to be more like 60 million jackasses.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:42:21 PM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: Lockbar
"I know its not zoologically correct, but I consider them to be more like 60 million jackasses."
And most of them are in Congress!
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:45:21 PM PDT
by
Young Werther
("Quae Cum Ita Sunt - Julius Caesar "Since these things are so!">)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:46:01 PM PDT
by
MCCC
To: MCCC
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:49:45 PM PDT
by
MCCC
To: JoeProBono
Australia has so many camels that they export them to the Middle East.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:55:50 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
To: paulycy
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:56:58 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
To: djf
And some carnivores are worse than others. I have heard that grizzly bear tastes like rotten fish.
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posted on
10/27/2009 12:59:17 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
Yup.
Don’t emus/ostriches spit also? Must be a Southern hemisphere habit...
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posted on
10/27/2009 1:02:10 PM PDT
by
djf
(Grasshopper: The game is rigged. Patience takes forever to learn. You're so screwed!!)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
10/27/2009 1:07:08 PM PDT
by
MrDaddyLongLegs
(You dont need any qualifications to be a Politician)
To: Blood of Tyrants
I read somewheres that some of the explorers that came out west from the east died because bear tasted so nasty.
They’d kill a bear and eat the liver instead of the meat, then croak from Vit A poisoning. Guess out of all the animals there are, bear has an absolutely astronomical amount of Vit A in the liver.
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posted on
10/27/2009 1:07:13 PM PDT
by
djf
(Grasshopper: The game is rigged. Patience takes forever to learn. You're so screwed!!)
To: MrDaddyLongLegs
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posted on
10/27/2009 1:11:05 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: djf
same outcome if you eat a sharks liver.
when in doubt, skip the innards.
To: Blood of Tyrants
I hear they spit.And their breath....unnnnngh.
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posted on
10/27/2009 1:23:41 PM PDT
by
paulycy
(Predatory Pricing = Public Option = Unethical Competition.)
To: 17th Miss Regt
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posted on
10/27/2009 1:37:11 PM PDT
by
getarope
(One Big Ass Mistake, America!)
To: paulycy
And their breath....unnnnngh.
To: JoeProBono
Lay low dude....
To: djf
No, those critters kick. They have very strong legs with big claws that can literally disembowel you.
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posted on
10/27/2009 1:41:31 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
To: aruanan
People in Egypt seem to think so. Since Australia slaughters 25,000 per year, they ought to sell them to the Egyptians.Camel meat is also popular in Saudi Arabia (or was in the 1980's when I saw it for sale in Saudi supermarkets)...
the infowarrior
To: djf
Yep. Grizzlies eat a lot of carrion and thus taste like carrion. Black bear from back east eat much more vegetation.
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posted on
10/27/2009 1:46:36 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The Second Amendment. Don't MAKE me use it.)
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