Animals are used both in times of peace and war, often working alongside human handlers and trainers. Camels in particular played an important role in exploring and transporting goods across inland Australia from the 1860s to 1930s, with camel trains of 20 to 80 animals transporting goods along routes like the Wanaaring Road in northwest New South Wales.

1. Economic Zoology
and the Human Price

3. Animals are used in peace and war
Animals come with handlers and trainers
Animals are often associated with
specific plants

5. Afghan camel train on the Wanaaring Road, north west NSW.
Camel trains varied from 20 to 80 camels,1890-1917.
Museum of Applied Arts and Science Collection, 85/1284-765, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

6. Australia's
Muslim
Cameleers:
Pioneers of
the Inland,
1860s-
1930s
(Kent
Town,
Southern
Australia:
Wakefield
Press,
2010), p.
28.

7. Tom L.
McKnight, The
Camel in
Australia
(Melbourne:
Melbourne
University Press,
1969), p. 74