India, Jan. 9 -- Down To Earth speaks to well-known camel expert Ilse Kohler-Rollefson on Australia's recent plans to cull 10,000 camels

If there would have been a camel community in Australia, the country would not have embarked on its recent plan to cull 10,000 of its feral camels, noted camel expert Ilse Kohler-Rollefson has said.

"The situation of the camels in Australia is unique. It is the only place where camels are feral and there really is no camel community that would keep them. Dairies have sprung up in places but that's very recent," Rollefson told Down To Earth (DTE).

A feral animal is one that lives in the wild but is descended from domesticated individuals. AMong animals that fit this description are the mustang horses o...