no more skippy steaks?
throw another camel on the barby?
An Oz Outback community is battling to regain control of its town from a 6,000-strong feral camel invasion, which has seen the thirsty dromedaries cause "chaos" in their search for water. According to the Times, the drought-hit beasts have descended on the Northern Territory's Docker River en masse, "trampling through homes, …
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In other news, herding them out into the wilderness and shooting them is kind of disturbing. Who signs up to do that, anyway? "Awesome! Craigslist ad for a camel-shooter! And they're all trapped in one place! This is going to be the BEST JOB EVER!"
There's a shortage of camels in the Middle East at the moment, thanks to some sort of disease that decimated the population. Why not ship a bunch of the younger ones to the Middle East where they may be able to introduce a greater depth to the gene pool and thereby mitigate the disease problem?
Australia does thriving business exporting camels to the Middle East, both for slaughter and for racing. This market however doesn't even dent the populations seen in the 'outback'. We can also flood markets with feral donkeys, feral pigs and feral goats, all that's needed is a good price.
Wasnt easier to set artifitial water ponds outside and far from the town, no shooting, and the camel would learn that there are easier water supply far from humans areas, just as they learned there was water in them in the fisrt place.
The hard part would be the water supply, with the drought and all, but it would be a long term solution, next time they start comming you open the valves too fill the ponds and bang, camles start to leave for the new water source, or if not, you can force them