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Better Ungulate Than Never
Indian camels celebrate high oil prices |
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06 May 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:22 AM on 06 May 2008 Rising oil prices have many Homo sapiens in a tizzy, but at least one species is celebrating high fuel costs: the camel. Finding it spendy to fuel their tractors, farmers in India are turning to ungulate power. "It's excellent for the camel population if the price of oil continues to go up because demand for camels will also go up," says Ilse Köhler-Rollefson of the League for Pastoral ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, India, news, oil, wildlife (all these topics) |
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