Camel army in Australia. How the Hunchbacks Took Over the Continent and Are Now Destroying It (9 photos)

One-humped camels, also known as dromedaries, have populated 40% of the continent. They riot in cities, starve local fauna to death, and occupy water supplies, forcing both people and animals to suffer from thirst. At the same time, humpbacks breed in the millions, and no one can stop this caravan of madness!





These are not just ships of the desert. This is a whole flotilla!

And it all started beautifully. In the 19th century, Australia was actively developed. People looked deep into the continent, into the red desert nothingness. For the expedition to new lands, hardy, unpretentious animals were needed, capable of carrying luggage and people. The summary of the one-humped camels passed all the points perfectly.



Hello. Am I late for the casting of the villain? According to the plot, he was supposed to capture the entire continent.

So the humped animals swam to Australia in huge parties. And at the beginning of the 20th century, about 22 thousand dromedaries were cutting through the dry Australian bush. On their uneven backs goods and people were transported from city to city, then sleepers-rails and telegraph wires. It was then that camel services gradually began to lose demand.





Historical background: hundreds of camel drivers from India, Egypt, Pakistan and Afghanistan came to Australia with the camels. The locals called them all Afghans.

Trains and cars sent the humpbacks into retirement, and many of their compassionate owners decided to let the unemployed animals go free. And what about the camels? That's right, they spat on everything and began to master the already familiar landscape. Thus, the inverted continent became the only place on the planet where you can meet wild dromedaries.



They traded us for iron boxes on wheels. We will take revenge!

The conditions of Australia suited the humpbacks perfectly. They are adapted to tough food, and the local predators did not even try to raid the desert caravans. The camels are too strong, too hardy, too big for the local underdeveloped meat eaters.



Only people can do something about the camel population in Australia.

The dromedaries multiplied and reproduced at such a rate as if they were trying to exceed some plan for populating the Australian desert. And they succeeded: tens of thousands turned into 1.2 million. And every ten years the population doubles.



The most brutal organized crime group in Australia, even wombats were afraid of them!

The hungry crowd sweeps away everything that is not nailed down. And what is nailed down, they tear off and sweep away too. Camels eat 80% of Australia's plant species. The local flora simply does not have time to recover from such devastating raids. The soil in places where the number of camels is more than two per square kilometer begins to degrade. The problem is that the excess number of animals is observed all over Australia!



— Well, comrades, now it all belongs to us!

With water, the situation is even worse — one camel sucks up 40-70 liters. A herd of hundreds and thousands of heads pumps out an entire source of drinking water. Everything that remains is polluted so much that it becomes impossible to drink the water. It is even worse if the source is artificial. Having sensed the life-giving moisture, the hunchbacks break taps and pipes to get to the liquid.



What do you mean we broke the pump? What do you mean it wasn't gushing? We just kicked it a couple of times to make the flow stronger, that's all!

And no barriers stop the animals. They break fences, crush barbed wire and actively attack everyone and everything, especially during the breeding season.



L: Wait, there was water here! Q: Technically, the water is still here.

It's so bad that in the 2000s, the Australian government decided to commit genocide against the horde of humpbacked raiders. More than 160,000 dromedaries were killed by gunfire. However, this did not stop the animals, it only held them back. They are still terrorizing almost half the continent: a million ships of the desert continue their devastating raids!