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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am completely anti any 'swim with the dolphins' or 'ride the elephant' type exploitive tourist thing however your info is wrong. Animals that bring in $$ are treated pretty terribly in most parts of the world. 
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How about camels? One of my bucket list items is to ride a camel in the Sahara in Morocco. [/quote]Aren't camels like horses?  They're domesticated.[/quote]

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If it's ok to ride a horse, it is ok to ride a camel.[/quote]

It depends. Some camels are pretty mistreated for the sake of tourists. Others are well treated and are work 'horses' who carry people and belongings across places where cars can't go. I once did a very short bus tour in Morocco. They stopped at a 'camel stop' and everyone got off and could get a picture riding a camel. It was horrible. The camels didn't want to be there having hoards of tourists climb on and off their backs and the camel keepers were not very nice to the camels in their efforts to get them to be tourist ready. That whole thing to me was wrong and very exploitive. However I know of a couple who traveled across some off the beaten path areas on camel back and with donkeys for 3 weeks and they said the animals were very valued and well treated as they were working animals and needed to be healthy to do their jobs. Their owners really valued them as they were a big part of their livelyhood. [/quote]

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