Camels and camelids (including alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos and llamas)

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Camels seem to be the biggest and most dangerous of the bunch.

A Camel managed to decapitate a man with a bite.

"It took over 25 people to calm down an aggravated camel who bit off its owner's head in Rajasthan's Barmer district on Saturday, after being left in the sun the whole day with its limbs tied up.


The owner, Urjaram of Mangta village, had forgotten about having left his camel bound in the heat while entertaining guests at his house. TOI reports that when he went to untie it in the evening, the annoyed animal attacked him.

"The animal lifted him by the neck and threw him on to the ground, chewed the body and severed the head," said a villager named Thakara Ram. The camel is said to have attacked Urjaram in the past as well."

https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/came...2016-05-25


A Camel bit a man so hard that his eye popped out.

"Animal bite injuries vary according to the geographical distribution, behavior, and anatomy of animals. Human injuries caused by camel bites are relatively rare. They are more common during the rutting season where male camels become more aggressive [1]. Due to the complex mechanism of camel bites, it is usually associated with high morbidity. The head and neck sustain frequent and severe injuries [2]. Injuries may involve facial wounds, skull fractures, intracranial bleeding, and cervical neurovascular injuries [1,2]. Herein, we report a unique case of a patient who sustained multiple camel bites to his face and neck that resulted in left eye evisceration, parotid duct injury, and facial nerve injury. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of globe rupture caused by a camel bite.


The mechanism of camel bite injuries is complex. This includes penetrating and crushing injuries, by the camel's sharp teeth and strong jaws, and blunt injuries when victims are picked up, shaken and thrown by the camels [1,3]. Globe injury caused by a camel bite has not been reported before. Our patient experienced repeated bites that resulted in multiple facial fractures and deep structure injuries involving his left eye and cheek. The camel deeply fixed its jaw in the patient's face using grinding movement that destroyed surrounding bones and intraocular contents and caused globe rupture of the left eye."

source: Balac, Korana, et al. "Globe rupture caused by a camel bite." Trauma case reports 21 (2019): 100202.

You can check the images of the man badly injured, but be warned since they are pretty graphic.

Here is a Camel still putting a good fight despite being restrained by a rope and having a slit neck. The slit is for Qurbani, an Islamic ritual of slaughtering animals for Eid al-Adha.

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Here is a Camel kicking a man despite having its leg tied for Qurbani.

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Now imagine how dangerous a Camel is for the likes of Big Cats, Wolves and Bears without any restraint. 

They are probably more dangerous than most animals apart from the Bovines and the Pachyderms. Reply