Whoa, there, big fella.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/whatever-happened-wild-camels-american-west-180956176/
Feral camels did survive in the desert, although there almost certainly weren’t enough living in the wild to support a thriving population. Sightings, while uncommon, were reported throughout the region up until the early 20th century. “It was rare, but because it was rare, it was notable,” Baum says. “It would make the news.” A young Douglas MacArthur, living in New Mexico in 1885, heard about a wild camel wandering near Fort Selden. A pair of camels were spotted south of the border in 1887. Baum estimates there were “six to ten” actual sightings in the postbellum period, up to 1890 or so. The legend of the Red Ghost — a crazed, wild monster roaming the Arizona desert — fit snugly within the shadow of the camel experiment.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/61993/how-civil-war-broke-camel-corps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Camel_Corps
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