The Rukh. They say that this is an animal that looks like a camel…If an animal fleeing from him gets high in a tree where he cannot reach it, he stops in front and spreads his tail in the shape of a shovel. Then he pees in it and throws his urine at the animal.
-Book on the Nature of Animals of the Sea and Land, Sharaf al-Zaman al-Marwazi (1055-1135)
It is true that camels take golden showers in groups and by so doing rile themselves into rut. We Khawajas did our best to just stand back and watch when this occured because rutting camels are dangerous. Surely there was more to desert decorum than this, we thought, but when the drovers laughed uproariously at the pissing camels, so did we.