According to a 2009 study, the minimum valuation of Australian wild camel is 1 million.
Someone has calculated that every 8 to 10 years, the number of camels will double. The flood of camels made the Australians very collapsed. They thought of various ways to deal with camels, and even used anti-espionage plan to install "spy" for camels, but it was useless.
This story starts from the early 19th century, when many British people came to Australia's coastal areas to settle down and gradually began to explore Australia's inland areas. But soon they encountered a problem. Although Australia is surrounded by the sea, it is the driest continent in the world, especially the western plateau and inland tropical desert climate, with an annual precipitation of only 100 to 300 mm.
Even now, water shortage has always been hanging on
An Damocles sword on the head of the Australian people.
If the European colonists at that time wanted to explore inland areas, they needed to overcome the problem of drought and low rain, and also needed transportation to transport supplies. At that time, internal combustion engines had not yet developed, and there were no domesticated animals in Australia. Therefore, people suggested introducing wild camels to help people work in semi-arid areas.
1 In 1840, the first camel was introduced to Australia; from 1870 to the next 50 years, Australia introduced 20,000 dromedary camels from Arabian Peninsula , India and Afghanistan , which were basically used for transportation in the inland Australian areas.
And in the 1920s, due to the emergence of cars, camels' transportation work was replaced. So camels began to be released into the wild one after another. In the inland areas of Australia's arid and rainy areas, camels showed super survivability. In addition, there were no natural enemies in the area, so they began to reproduce wildly, with a sharp increase in population, reaching a disaster. This also brings many problems, especially water resources.
Although camels are called: Desert Boats, in fact, they do not need to drink water, but either do not drink water or drink a lot of
water. 1 bimodal camel can drink 114 liters of water in 10 minutes, and at most it can even drink more than 200 liters of water. It would be fine if you don’t drink water in the next few days after you have enough.
Camels are very well adapted to sand, but they also directly threaten the drought ecology in Australia. The flooded camels wiped out a large number of small outdoor puddles, which in the past were water sources for other local wildlife.
Not only that, the flooded camels will also snatch water from domestic animals.
Australia is also known as the "country on the back of sheep". They raise a large number of sheep in grasslands and desert edges and prepare water for sheep.
These camels can smell the smell of water vapor from a distance. They will not only snatch livestock water resources, but also pour into the community to grab the water tanks, faucets, and even the water from air-conditioning condenser . Stampage often occurs during camels grabbing water, resulting in the death of livestock and camels.
In drought years, camels will die if they cannot find the water source. A large number of dead camels pollute the water source and pasture environment, causing the spread of pathogens.
More importantly, camels are the ones who can't let go of anything. Not to mention conventional plants, they even come to cactus.
eat whatever they catch, not only robbed local wild animals and livestock food, but also aggravated soil desertification.
So in Australia, camels are definitely not a good person. When it comes to camels, they are treated as vicious beasts and will hunt some camels regularly, especially in drought and rainy years.
For example: From 2019 to 2020, a forest fire occurred in Australia that shocked the world. The forest fire and drought caused a large number of camels to be forced to move to local rural communities, making the already scarce plants and drinking water more tense, and even destroying infrastructure and threatening passing vehicles. Therefore, after the fire, Australia immediately began to shoot camels.
In order to better hunt camels, the local area also invented the "Judas Collar", a collar with positioning function. They put the "Judas Collar" on one of the camels.
Since camels are herd animals, camels with Judah collars will join other camels. The staff can find the camels where they are based based on the locations sent back by Judah collars, and then eliminate all camels, leaving only the camels with Judah collars. Therefore, it will continue to join other camels and then continue to repeat the previous hunt. Because camels with Judah's collars will sell their camels, just as Judah sells Jesus , this kind of collar is called "Judah's collars".
Among these camels with Judas collars, some camels realized that they would bring bad luck to the camels, so they chose to live alone.
Reasonablely, Judas collars are used to deal with camels, so they should be able to cut the camels! What is the remains of
, and it cannot be!
Even if Australia spends a lot of money every year and uses various methods to hunt camels, it actually has not been able to completely solve the situation of the flood of camels. The proliferation of wild camels is still the most troublesome ecological problem in Australia.
From the perspective of individual camels, whether they are hunted or those with "Judas collar", they just want to survive.
From the perspective of the local ecology of Australia, camels are invasive species and have great harm to the local ecology, so hunting is helpless.
What we need to know is that it was humans who brought camels to Australia, but now the ecology is destroyed, and it is humans who want to kill all camels. Therefore, the culprit that caused this tragedy was actually humans themselves.
