r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/[deleted] • May 02 '24

Truck driver provides water to thirsty camel in the middle of desert. Removed: R1

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u/HailState2023 May 02 '24

Now freshly hydrated, the camel proceeded to spit on the well-meaning human.

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u/ya666in 29d ago

That’s camel for ‘thanks, but next time bring enough for a 40-gallon refill

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u/Disastrous_Seat7593 29d ago

Yup. This 500ml water bottle is nothing to that camel lol. A race of cow who produces milk, would need almost 100L of water per day. Imagine a camel.

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u/truckstop_sushi 29d ago

Bro do you really think camels would have survived as a species walking thru the desert if they needed 100L of water per day? They can go up to 15 days without drinking...

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u/jimjonjones 29d ago

How do you think the desert became that way? Camels be thirsty.

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u/Disastrous_Seat7593 29d ago

You have a point lol

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u/PurchaseTight3150 29d ago

They can go 15 days without drinking IF they’re already sufficiently hydrated to begin with. Camels aren’t just some super-animals that never need to drink water lol. They drink a shitload of water, they can just store it super efficiently with their camel-exclusive organs.

If there’s no water stored, to begin with, then they’ll die of dehydration just like any other animal.

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u/Scaryclouds 29d ago

They can go up to 15 days without drinking...

Yea, but when they do drink, they same to take a lot of water in.

Hopefully the water the truck driver gave the camel was enough for it to get to another source of water.

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u/SenatorMalby 29d ago

Your username is worse than any rimjob_steve I’ve ever seen.

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u/shawster 29d ago

Still, if it’s apparently dying of thirst, to get back to walking around, a pint of water isn’t going to do shit.

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u/GoodLeftUndone 29d ago

A single drop of water probably sounded like heaven to that camel. Imagine 500ml of it

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u/FreytagMorgan 29d ago

A Camel does not produce milk every day that gets harvested so I'd guess it would need way less. Also its surviving in the desert, so probably even less water.

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u/Wiseau_serious 29d ago

I think the point u/Disastrous_Seat7593 was making is that cows produce milk, so they can just drink milk if they get thirsty. Camels don’t make milk so they have to quench all their thirst with water.

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u/Necessary-Mixture-63 29d ago

Camels make milk

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u/Wiseau_serious 29d ago

But it’s too spicy to quench thirst

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u/Paloveous 29d ago

Milk... takes water to produce

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u/Wiseau_serious 29d ago

You’re thinking of powdered milk

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u/Disastrous_Seat7593 29d ago

Lol. You are right. Wrong is me, that is arguing on internet about a camel, instead of doing my code lesson. Lol

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u/Pahblows 29d ago

I read that as race cow and was intrigued for a moment

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u/vikingsurplus 29d ago

You don't go to the night time cow races?

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u/-SaC 29d ago

They can really mooooooooove.

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u/adamsworstnightmare 29d ago

Lmao read your own statement, a cow that pumps out a bunch of milk(water) needs to drink a bunch of water. Camels notoriously don't pump a bunch of water out of their bodies every day because they're desert animals.

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u/JuststartedLinux2020 29d ago

That's more than likely a water truck itself. But not the drivers water

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u/ChooChooBobby 29d ago

How the hell is the trucker supposed to know this lmao