In nature, in addition to elephants, rhinoceros, and other behemoths, other herbivores have natural enemies.

Even the African buffalo, which weigh an average of 650 kg, lose their lives to lions by the tens of thousands every year.

However, camels, as a herbivore, are rarely seen or heard of being killed by carnivores.

Don't camels have natural predators? Why do we rarely hear about camels being killed?

The main reason why we rarely hear about camels being hunted by predators lies in the current state of camels in the wild.

There are very few Bactrian camels in the wild at the moment, and they are now in protected areas.

It is unlikely that a predator capable of hunting camels would be present in this environment.

And the only dromedary that still exists in the wild in the world is in Australia.

But Australia itself has a shortage of predators, which has led to the Australian wild dog being even the top predator here.

Australia has so many smaller, less defensible pouched animals. There is also no need for Australian dingoes to risk hunting large camels.

This is because dromedaries all weigh an average of 450 kg.

Finally, as a large mammal that inhabits the desert Gobi, camels are inherently lacking in predators that could threaten them in their native environment.

Therefore, their scarcity and protection are the main reasons why we rarely hear of camels being killed by predators.

Camels certainly have natural predators, and more than one. Let's start with those in nature.

The only wild predators that can threaten wild camels in their native environment are wolves.

In the old days, before the wild camel population was large and protected, the gray wolf was the camel's greatest natural predator.

This is because wolves are herd animals and there are always old and sick camels among the herd animals.

When wolves are encountered, they are the first to suffer.

This can be seen by the fact that the main prey of wolves in North America includes moose weighing over 500 kg.

However, under the crazy hunting and killing by humans, wolf packs are very rare in nature.

Even when you go to the uninhabited Gobi, you can at most see a few wolves in a small pack. Therefore, at present, camels have few rivals in nature.

After talking about nature, let's look at the camel's biggest natural enemy, which is humans.

The reason why wild camels have reached their current state of extreme danger is inseparable from human hunting and killing.

After all, camels are big, but they are too weak in the face of weapons.

We wonder how many of you have heard of the "Judas Collar", which has "killed" over 160,000 camels.

Most of the surviving dromedaries are in captivity, the rest are in Australia.

These camels were brought from Asia by Australians to facilitate crossing the desert.

But since other tools became available, they have been abandoned.

In the absence of natural predators, the camels reproduced wildly and proliferated.

At first, the reason we rarely heard about the disappearance of camels killed by predators was that camels were more numerous and no one cared if they were killed by natural predators.

Moreover, the specificity of its distribution environment caused fewer natural predators.

In fact, the biggest natural predator facing all animals nowadays is humans.