A closer look
Camels were successfully introduced to the Australian Outback in the nineteenth century to help explore the vast, arid interior of the continent because they can travel up to 40 miles a day and survive for weeks without drinking water. When motorized transport eventually replaced them in the 1920s, thousands of these animals were simply released into the wild by their owners. Today, Australia has the largest population of feral camels in the entire world, numbering over one million, and they regularly terrorize remote communities by smashing plumbing infrastructure to drink from toilets and air conditioners. It is the ultimate revenge story of an exploited workforce realizing their bosses are obsolete and deciding to aggressively unionize by destroying the local water supply
