I’ve been on a camel ( a real one) in Alice Springs.
Did you know that:
Australia is home to over one million feral dromedary camels. Surprisingly, this means the Australian outback has the largest wild camel population in the world—surpassing traditional camel regions like Egypt and the UAE
I have known about the extraordinary number of camels in Australia.
They all derive from the population brought over to Australia from the mid 1800s. Used as pack animals then released into the wild with the advent of the motor car and trains early 1900s.
I tried riding a camel in Egypt but it got the hump
We were in a queue in Ibiza waiting to ride a camel, I slapped one on the buttocks and it spat at the lady in front…
Apparently the Australian camels are much sought after in the Middle East for racing because they are the original breed not inbred.
Inbreeding in the Middle East has produced rather unfortunate results (or so I read)