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 a peacock’s tail.
-Camel, Robert Irwin
However much of their own water the camels wasted, the drovers made up for it by conserving ours, poured carefully and sipped thoughtfully, drained from tea glasses to the last drop, rinsed lightly to only half wash the cook pot so that by Day 40 we could still taste Day 1’s asīda. The camels arrived in Binban thirsty while we arrived well refreshed, our Qirbas still sloshing.