Does Reuters think its readers are total idiots?

What's stupidly wrong with the following paragraph:

"Can you imagine? The camel's shoulders stood three metres (yards) high and it was around four metres tall, as big as a giraffe or an elephant. Nobody knew that such a species had existed."

hint: a meter is not a yard, and anyone who doesn't know what a meter is is probably qualified to be a US president (based on the current standard).