Surprise, 1,000,000 camels are roaming the Australian desert. They’re the great, great grand-children of imported pack animals that helped build our rural power and rail networks. Set free at the advent of the petrol engine, those animals took to their new home with gusto. For the camel, Australia’s vast tracts of inhospitable wastelands turned out to be a smorgasbord of thistles, weeds and prickly acacias, food that native animals wouldn’t look twice at. Throw in their legendary ability to go for days without water and it’s no wonder they now outnumber koalas by 10 to 1.
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