Camels everywhere get hot and rut in winter. In summer, mostly, they are placid, remembering the past, laying up stores for the future.
-With regard to the oiling of camels and the injecting of oil into their nostrils, The Trotter-Nama, I. Allan Sealy
Some camels in the herd rutted in the two winters when KhairAllah and I rode the Darb and yes I thought their days were plenty warm. Sudanese summers I never saw, I’d left Kordofan by then, but I knew their days were insufferably hot, making it impossible to think of past or future, only that interminable present when oily sweat drips off the nose faster than a second ticks by.