Australians couldn't give a XXXX for camels!

Talk about getting the hump!

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8403603.stm

A major cull of camels is taking place in Australia after residents from a remote outback town complained the animals were destroying their community.
The media had been barred from filming the cull but early reports suggested hundreds had been killed only a few hours into the slaughter.

Just a diversion post to forget the budget!

WindSock

The Camels in Oz are high quality Afghan camels imported to help build the railway across the desert. They should sell them back to the Arabs.

Dockfive

I had camel sausage in Australia, damn tasty.

mikom

Dockfive wrote: »

I had camel sausage in Australia, damn tasty.

Ohhh matron.

Run_to_da_hills

WindSock wrote: »

The Camels in Oz are high quality Afghan camels imported to help build the railway across the desert. They should sell them back to the Arabs.

They could send them on over here to finish off our railways. :mad:

opinion guy

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

They could send them on over here to finish off our railways. :mad:

Lol - they could probably manage our finances better too.

All Hail Our New Camel Overlords !!

lucky-colm

i wonder if they are as multifunctional as sheep:rolleyes:

Xavi6

The camels are contaminating drinking water in remote outback regions and it's proving detremental to the health of the Aboriginals that live there. There's thousands of camels roaming around and they are essentially vermon now, just like kangaroos.

No choice but to do cull them.

WindSock

Camels also stole the Kangaroo's image (sorta)

marco_polo

WindSock wrote: »

The Camels in Oz are high quality Afghan camels imported to help build the railway across the desert. They should sell them back to the Arabs.

They actually do export quite a few as far as I know.

Xavi6 wrote: »

The camels are contaminating drinking water in remote outback regions and it's proving detremental to the health of the Aboriginals that live there. There's thousands of camels roaming around and they are essentially vermon now, just like kangaroos.

No choice but to do cull them.

There an estimate something like a million of them in the wild (At least according to a handler at the Brisbane 'Crikey' Zoo )?

rushnaldo

But isnt this the same as the great white shark who happens to bite a swimmer in his territory and then the hunt is on to kill the shark

Capt'n Midnight

TBH they should kill off all the foreign species bigger than Kangeroos
then move on to cats and rabbits

I like the idea of re-introducing Komodo dragons as a top preditor to restore previous eco-systems

Nichololas

lucky-colm wrote: »

i wonder if they are as multifunctional as sheep:rolleyes:

Nah they're too tall and not as easy to grab a hold of.

edit: Or so I've heard
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Osgoodisgood

rushnaldo wrote: »

But isnt this the same as the great white shark who happens to bite a swimmer in his territory and then the hunt is on to kill the shark

erm...................no. not the same. the great white shark is protected in australian waters.

citizen_p

its the sae as a cow etc... just harder too manage or not great meat....

cull awy...not like they are an indngered species...its only a 1000 or 2

eat them though

no sense in wsting them