Camel whisperer: Margie Bale

Margie Bale is one of Australia's leading camel vets. She is based out of Brisbane but travels all over the country doing everything from pregnancy testing and ultrasounds of pregnant camels, to castrating bulls, and performing post-mortems on camels using the array of power tools in the back of her car. Camels were introduced to Australia in the 19th century as part of the construction of the Ghan railway between Adelaide, Alice Springs and Darwin. Those animals were the beginning of the feral camel population - the world's largest - estimated upwards of one million. Margie Bale says she fell in love with camels for their intelligence, adaptability and incredibly physiology.