He urinates and uses his tail to swish his piss about. All this spitting, drooling, and urinating- wastage of water- can be seen as a form of conspicuous display intended to impress the female- the male camel’s equivalent of the peacock’s tail.
-Camel, by Robert Irwin
When I would leave the campsite to walk a bit into the desert to urinate, I always got a question from the drovers when I returned. Luwees, why do you stand like a camel when you piss? Camelmen wore sirwaal pants without zippers, so they would have had to drop their drawers in order to pull it out and answer nature’s first call. So they squatted instead.
The male camel’s throat bladder, a part of the soft palate called the “dul’a”, or the palatine diverticulum- which he expells with a deep gurgle when aroused, looks like he is blowing a pink chewing gum bubble. The English call it “a flaming grimace”, pronounced with a long “a”, which gives what is merely a rank sexual display a bit of upper class dignity, like a peacock’s tail.