Animal rights anger over Highland Wildlife camel

BOSSES at a Scots safari park have denied accusations by animal rights campaigners of exploiting a camel by making him chase off a “rival” Land Rover.

Karanli, the only male Bactrian camel at the Highland Wildlife Park, Kingussie, has become protective of his two female companions. Now, vehicles which drive through the open zoo become “open competition” and he chases them away. Staff at the zoo said it was a “completely natural show of territorial activity”.

But Captive Animals Protection Society director Liz Tyson said: “The idea a zoo would deliberately create a stressful situation for one of the animals in its care to facilitate a cheap publicity stunt is repugnant.”