The long neck gives a similar advantage as to the giraffe, enabling them to eat from the trees. Like a giraffe, camel often feeds on thorny acacia trees species that is commonly in the Africa.
It is estimated that as many as 1,000,000 camels live in deserts in central Australia, and some say that number will be doubled for the next nine years. These animals were first brought to Australia in 1840 from India and the Arabian Peninsula to help people cross the desert.