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Are there camels in Africa

Updated: 10/8/2023
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6y ago

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Yes. Australia is the only country that has wild camels. The Arab traders brought them over to help transport luggage and goods, and they just started to breed, and now there is a large number of wild camels, mostly in central Australia.

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14y ago

Yes there are many Camels in the Simpson Desert. Camels are not native to Australia, but they were brought over in the first half of the 1800s, to carry goods across Australia where horses and drays simply could not cope. Afghan cameleers trod many a path across the deserts of Australia, and naturally, camels escaped from time to time. Australia actually has the world's largest feral camel population, and there are estimated to be half a million wild camels in Western Australia alone.

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12y ago

No, the camel is not native to Australia. They have been introduced, and are now in plague proportions in the outback.

Whilst actual figures are not known, it is estimated that there are between 500,000 and 1,000,000 feral camels in Australia's outback.

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9y ago

Yes, there are wild camels that live in Australia. They are referred to as Australian feral camels and are a combination of Bactrian and dromedary camels.

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10y ago

because they are there before

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