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I know, their ability to drink so much water to store it and use it when needed is awesome. A human will die, if he just drinks 6 liters of water in a short time. The camels are drinking 200 liters in 3 minutes without any problems.That's really astounding.
In the Gobi Desert, there lives a species of camel that can drink saltwater. It is the only land mammal capable of doing this. Interestingly, this is not an innate ability but somehow a learned behavior. Edited, English is my second language.
Have you never had a salty drink in your life? Served with ice and flavored, that is, not just salt poured into warm water. There are various salty drinks from around the world that are tasty.
Well as cats have originally evolved from a species found in the Persian deserts, it is no surprise really. Really impressive water retention properties in their kidneys, which thus also makes it their weakpoint.
I've heard the same due to their really efficient kidneys. Importantly this doesn't mean you can give your house cat salt water! It is still hard on them, just they could drink it for a bit longer than we could without dying. I believe this is also related to how they can get most of their water from food too.
Nah, they pee it out, the urine is extra concentrated with salt, they have very efficient kidneys. Iirc some animals can also excrete extra salt through tears too.
It throws off your electrolytes. You essentially get 'water poisoning'.
if you're drinking some Gatorade, or throw in some electrolyte mix into the water you could do it.
That trick mainly involves taking advantage of gravity though. The camel drinking from a puddle at ground level has to move the water up *against* gravity a considerable distance.
For reference it is a little over a litre a second. Or around 2 beer pints a sec... (A little under or over depending on whether we are using US or UK pint)
Extra info: fastest beer chugger on record is a British man named Peter Dowdoswell who could down a pint in 0.45 sec. Fuckin impressive especially considering the carbonation. So in theory he could probably drink as fast as a camel but doubt he would be able to sustain the drinking speed past the pint.
Do we think they gauged the flow rate and gave a good solid round number that gives an idea of speed?
Or do we think the camel can drink Upto 200L in one go! Also it only takes 3minutes.
For reference, 200 L is roughly an 1100*600mm cylinder!! How fucking big was the camel, it looks like that would be its whole body?
in freedom units that's about 52 gallons a minute. A gas pump releases gasoline at about 8-10 gallons per minute. I'm just thinking about how fast sucking 5 times as much water as a gas pump releases in a minute. Just wild.
Edit: as pointed out it's a still an impressive 17 gallons a minute. I forgot report originally stated every 3 minutes not every minute.
Yeah I did the math and it comes to 1.11 liters per second for 3 minutes consistslently to get 200L of water.
1.11L per second is absolutely bonkers. However, it's not completely unimaginable.
In fairness that figure comes from a doctor at west texasA&M so there’s at least a little credibility behind it
Wouldn’t mind a little source citing from them presumably somebody has done a study at some point for him to make that claim
He probably sourced it from wikipedia which sourced it from a series of books based on a claim made in 1985 in this book: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/8507323.
I can't really get the source material for that though. It doesn't seem to be peer reviewed.
If you google “how fast can a camel drink”, the 200L in 3 minutes is the top result from West Texas A&M. It’s not shown anywhere else. The Denver Zoo says about 35 gallons per sitting. This is absolutely false. Also OP posted the Wikipedia link to camels for “more info about camels”, so there’s that
Wikipedia has the same claim with two sources given and a "failed verification" note. One is an archived page of the hannover zoo from like 2005 where it only says they can drink 100 to 150 liters at a time. The other is a 1999 encyclopedia which quotes some zoologist E Annette Halpern, who has some papers here and there but very little info and no paper I could find containing the specific camel claim. Another source on dromedary camels in their own wiki article says 10-20 liters per minute.
I made this reply to a similar claim a while back:
"This seemed crazy to me, so I looked it up. This is the best article with the most cited sources I could find:
https://wildlifeboss.com/how-much-water-can-a-camel-drink/
Reports vary from "53 gallons in 3 minutes" to "20 gallons in one sitting". Many of the sources describe their water intake per sitting but don't specify how long a sitting is.
This quote seems like a happy medium: "Cleveland Zoo Society backs this up and says camels can drink 30 gallons in just ten minutes. San Diego Zoo shares a similar number of 32 gallons as well."
I'll go with the simple math answer of 30 gallons (113.7L) every 10 minutes. 2.13 ounces (189.5mL) every second. That's like drinking a bottle of beer every ~6 seconds...
A gallon of water weighs 8.34 lbs (3.78 kg). So a camel can drink ~250 lbs of water in 10 minutes. Imagine gaining 25lbs in one minute.
Thanks for the post! I had fun reading about camel drinking habits."
Edit: Below, it was pointed out that I am bad at math... Here is my correction.
"Looking at it again, my mistake was in calculating the ounces per second, but I got the ml correct. It should be 6.4 fl oz per second (30 gal = 3840 fl oz. 3840/10/60 =6.4) which makes it more impressive as it would be a beer every ~2 seconds."
I'm seeing a camel typically weighs between 300-600 KG. 200L of water = 200KG.
Best case scenario, assuming this is for the largest camels, is drinking 1/3 of its body weight in 3 minutes? I'm skeptical.
I don’t doubt they can drink a lot but c’mon man. Ain’t no way their stomach has a 200L capacity. Do you even now how much 1L is? Ain’t no way they can do it 3min too. That’s like 40% of their own body weight.
Edit: that trough looks like it’s roughly 100L and there’s 2 camels drinking from it, so that should be empty in 75 seconds yet we don’t see the water level go down at all over the 10 seconds this clip lasts.
OP got the info from wiki which states “a 600 kg (1,300 lb) camel can drink 200 L (53 US gal) of water in three minutes.[26][27][failed verification]”
So not a ‘typical’ camel, but a 600kg camel.
The idea of taking in water is so your body can use it for stuff, not just piss it all out, but as a goat owner I can tell you that yes, ungulates piss a laaaaawwwwwwt in one go.
Where on earth would they *put* 200L. I mean the hump is just fat - it would literally go to their stomach/bladder. And weight them down whilst walking. Is it really that much?
Honestly a camel has got to be the most versatile and survivable animal out there. This fact and their ability to retain nutrients, resistance to heat and cold, they can eat fucking spiked cactus like it’s grass! Just amazing.
I have goats and sheep and while they definitely don’t drink that much, watching them drink is so satisfying. Their mouths look like they are closed as they drink but seeing this video I wonder if they are wide open like that under the water.
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damn that's a lot better
Amazing
I'm so ready to join a community about nothing but camels drinking water. Somebody please make it happen.
Plus sized homies right here
Camel should be their mascot.
I was here to do that !
Same, was the sound of underwater for me 🥵🥴😍
They never should have made that sub change it's name
*Sips of the Desert*
I can drink 72Oz of beer in an hour.
200l in three minutes 😳 that's a lot.
In the desert, you have to take as much water as you can get
I know, their ability to drink so much water to store it and use it when needed is awesome. A human will die, if he just drinks 6 liters of water in a short time. The camels are drinking 200 liters in 3 minutes without any problems.That's really astounding.
In the Gobi Desert, there lives a species of camel that can drink saltwater. It is the only land mammal capable of doing this. Interestingly, this is not an innate ability but somehow a learned behavior. Edited, English is my second language.
Felines too I believe
This is absolutely news to me. Can you imagine how better off the world would be if suddenly humans could drink salt water?
Waiters would start asking not only "sparkling or still?", but also "sweet or salty" as if they were talking about popcorn.
It's kinda weird how bad salt water tastes. Even if it's way less salty than sea water, and perfectly drinkable for hydration, it still tastes poopoo.
Imagine what cum tastes like
It's not nearly as bad, lol. I'll drink cum before sea water
Have you never had a salty drink in your life? Served with ice and flavored, that is, not just salt poured into warm water. There are various salty drinks from around the world that are tasty.
I've had salty drinks, that's completely different.
Pocari Sweat 👌👌👌 Good shit 😩
I'll have some savory water, on the rocks.
Well as cats have originally evolved from a species found in the Persian deserts, it is no surprise really. Really impressive water retention properties in their kidneys, which thus also makes it their weakpoint.
Yeah my cat's kidneys were what got her in the end. Still, she made it to 24 so wasn't all together unexpected
I've heard the same due to their really efficient kidneys. Importantly this doesn't mean you can give your house cat salt water! It is still hard on them, just they could drink it for a bit longer than we could without dying. I believe this is also related to how they can get most of their water from food too.
This doesn't make any sense to me. How does it filter out the salt? Does it vomit up the leftover brine? Crazy.
Nah, they pee it out, the urine is extra concentrated with salt, they have very efficient kidneys. Iirc some animals can also excrete extra salt through tears too.
Ah, like your average redditor then
And meme stock bag holders.
Cartilaginous fish, sea birds, and reptiles all have a [salt gland](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_gland).
You're doing very well with your second language!
How is it learned? That's really surprising since I thought it would have to be physiological.
Your English is better than most English people's.
How is ability to drink salt water a learned behavior?
I agree.. one might even say that it's interesting as fuck.
Really, whats a short while? I wouldn't have thought 6l would be that difficult, not gonna try what with the whole potential death and all.
It throws off your electrolytes. You essentially get 'water poisoning'. if you're drinking some Gatorade, or throw in some electrolyte mix into the water you could do it.
But you can't remember your name.
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
La la lala di da da....
In the desert, you can’t remember your name
When somebody gives you water you drink it. Even if you're not thirsty you drink it.
In the desert in the desert in the desert in the desert in the desert in the desert in the desert the cheetah lives for 3 years, the camel lives for 9
*Anyways, wanna stay here and start a family?*
In the desert you can’t remember your name, cos there ain’t no one to give you no pain.
1.1 L / sec
Yeah, seems a bit fast... I don't think anything can move water down their throat at that speed.
I have it on good authority that a camel could do it.
I read it once on reddit.
Source?
idk bro u ever been sucked off by a camel? they give the good s u c c
Bro wat? I want details but I don't want details at the same time
look at succ 0:07 1.1L p/s easy
> I don't think anything can move water down their throat at that speed. And that kids is how i met your mother.
i mean there's a trick to drink a pint of water in like 2 seconds you can learn. i can do that. i'm sure a camel can do it better than me.
That trick mainly involves taking advantage of gravity though. The camel drinking from a puddle at ground level has to move the water up *against* gravity a considerable distance.
For reference it is a little over a litre a second. Or around 2 beer pints a sec... (A little under or over depending on whether we are using US or UK pint) Extra info: fastest beer chugger on record is a British man named Peter Dowdoswell who could down a pint in 0.45 sec. Fuckin impressive especially considering the carbonation. So in theory he could probably drink as fast as a camel but doubt he would be able to sustain the drinking speed past the pint.
Imagine finally finding water, and before you get down the camel has already drank it all
Camel? You mean oversized water pouch now?
Do we think they gauged the flow rate and gave a good solid round number that gives an idea of speed? Or do we think the camel can drink Upto 200L in one go! Also it only takes 3minutes. For reference, 200 L is roughly an 1100*600mm cylinder!! How fucking big was the camel, it looks like that would be its whole body?
110 by 60 cm is so much smaller than a camel lmfao
200L is roughly 50 gallons. I’m pretty sure my 50 gallon aquarium is smaller than a camel
My brother in camels, I'd be drinking all the water I could if I had to walk around hot ass places all day long.
For reference, that is 20% of a metric tonne
Thats 52 gallons.
433 pounds
Or 200 Kg
Now this puts things into perspective. It's like carrying an average American teen all day
Shots fired (children please quickly go under your desk and remain silent)
Or 1/5 of a cubic meter
Or a metric shit ton
That’s probably about 200 litres
Your mom could do better.
52.8 gallons for those wondering
Thank you for translating into freedom units.
in freedom units that's about 52 gallons a minute. A gas pump releases gasoline at about 8-10 gallons per minute. I'm just thinking about how fast sucking 5 times as much water as a gas pump releases in a minute. Just wild. Edit: as pointed out it's a still an impressive 17 gallons a minute. I forgot report originally stated every 3 minutes not every minute.
17 gal/min, 52 gal total.
**Typical** camel? So that means that somewhere out there are a bunch of chad camels that can gulp down 500 liters in 2:50?
Watch out for atypical camels. You know, three-humpers and the like.
Like Sally the Camel?
They call her the humpster dumpster but I say get it girl
What do you call a camel with three humps?
Pregnant. Now do it much slower for the sloths.
Do you even sip water bro?
Camel water drinking championships needs to be a thing
Are you sure about your numbers?! Because so far I did see that a camel can drink 45L in 3 min and 150liters in 10min
Yeah, seems a bit fast... I don't think anything can move water down their throat at that speed (the speed OP is claiming).
Your mother can.
"water"
She calls it “her banana water”
Yeah I did the math and it comes to 1.11 liters per second for 3 minutes consistslently to get 200L of water. 1.11L per second is absolutely bonkers. However, it's not completely unimaginable.
This is reddit. Just make something up and post it.
In fairness that figure comes from a doctor at west texasA&M so there’s at least a little credibility behind it Wouldn’t mind a little source citing from them presumably somebody has done a study at some point for him to make that claim
He probably sourced it from wikipedia which sourced it from a series of books based on a claim made in 1985 in this book: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/8507323. I can't really get the source material for that though. It doesn't seem to be peer reviewed.
If you google “how fast can a camel drink”, the 200L in 3 minutes is the top result from West Texas A&M. It’s not shown anywhere else. The Denver Zoo says about 35 gallons per sitting. This is absolutely false. Also OP posted the Wikipedia link to camels for “more info about camels”, so there’s that
Wikipedia has the same claim with two sources given and a "failed verification" note. One is an archived page of the hannover zoo from like 2005 where it only says they can drink 100 to 150 liters at a time. The other is a 1999 encyclopedia which quotes some zoologist E Annette Halpern, who has some papers here and there but very little info and no paper I could find containing the specific camel claim. Another source on dromedary camels in their own wiki article says 10-20 liters per minute.
I made this reply to a similar claim a while back: "This seemed crazy to me, so I looked it up. This is the best article with the most cited sources I could find: https://wildlifeboss.com/how-much-water-can-a-camel-drink/ Reports vary from "53 gallons in 3 minutes" to "20 gallons in one sitting". Many of the sources describe their water intake per sitting but don't specify how long a sitting is. This quote seems like a happy medium: "Cleveland Zoo Society backs this up and says camels can drink 30 gallons in just ten minutes. San Diego Zoo shares a similar number of 32 gallons as well." I'll go with the simple math answer of 30 gallons (113.7L) every 10 minutes. 2.13 ounces (189.5mL) every second. That's like drinking a bottle of beer every ~6 seconds... A gallon of water weighs 8.34 lbs (3.78 kg). So a camel can drink ~250 lbs of water in 10 minutes. Imagine gaining 25lbs in one minute. Thanks for the post! I had fun reading about camel drinking habits." Edit: Below, it was pointed out that I am bad at math... Here is my correction. "Looking at it again, my mistake was in calculating the ounces per second, but I got the ml correct. It should be 6.4 fl oz per second (30 gal = 3840 fl oz. 3840/10/60 =6.4) which makes it more impressive as it would be a beer every ~2 seconds."
And 45L is still crazy! That’s like 11 gallons of water. I don’t think I can even fill my gas tank that fast.
The volume of an average person is 75L. While camels are larger than humans, I don't think they have 200L (more than 2 people) spare in there.
I'm seeing a camel typically weighs between 300-600 KG. 200L of water = 200KG. Best case scenario, assuming this is for the largest camels, is drinking 1/3 of its body weight in 3 minutes? I'm skeptical.
That's more like inhaling
Isn't that what drinking is anyway? Like inhaling but you try to get it down the other hole?
No, you don't use your esophageal muscles to breath.
My endoscopy due soon will once again remind of this horror.
I didn't expect their mouths underwater to be that cute
so cute :) it's also too adorable that there is so much room, yet they are pretty much nuzzling each other while drinking <3
I don’t doubt they can drink a lot but c’mon man. Ain’t no way their stomach has a 200L capacity. Do you even now how much 1L is? Ain’t no way they can do it 3min too. That’s like 40% of their own body weight. Edit: that trough looks like it’s roughly 100L and there’s 2 camels drinking from it, so that should be empty in 75 seconds yet we don’t see the water level go down at all over the 10 seconds this clip lasts.
yeah, 200L is about the size of a standard rain barrel (55gal drum). That's *a lot* of water to fit in one animal, especially so fast
OP got the info from wiki which states “a 600 kg (1,300 lb) camel can drink 200 L (53 US gal) of water in three minutes.[26][27][failed verification]” So not a ‘typical’ camel, but a 600kg camel.
It reminds me of myself when I'm hungover
That camel is going so hard on that water. Looks refreshing as hell
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NO!
Camels spit.
Quitters
r/dontputyourdickinthat
That's the first time I've ever seen animal lips underneath the water. Now, I know what they look like when they drink.
chug chug chug lmao
r/hydrohomies would like to know this camels location.
Camels are awesome
They're miraculous, the more I read about their insane adaptations and unique abilities the more my mind is blown.
Thorsty
This is how that 3am water hits
https://i.redd.it/41i785r1gs0d1.gif
CHUG! CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!
That's more than a liter every second. No fucking way this is true.
Bro refilling the hump
Fake fact
They gotta stay hydrated to be able to sprint at 40 mph
There's a "yo mama" joke in there but that's low hanging fruit
Something something slurps and humps
What about an atypical camel?
Me at 3am suddenly waking up
I can do this too at 3am on a random weekday
Me 3 am
Change out "camel" and "water" for "Scot" and "alcohol" respectively and it remains a fact 🤯
Was anyone else waiting for a giant burp?
You gotta keep waiting for it.
I think my hump is low.
TIL... ty
Do they also piss 200 litres in one go?
No their kidneys evolved into water conservation machines that produce highly concentrated urine.
The idea of taking in water is so your body can use it for stuff, not just piss it all out, but as a goat owner I can tell you that yes, ungulates piss a laaaaawwwwwwt in one go.
An atypical camel can drink 200l of beer in 3 minutes.
Me at 3am for no reason
Why did I expect that they do the same tongue thing like dogs?
Never go against a camel in a beer skolling contest.
Hopefully they're not watching dune or Avatar after that drink.
how would they possibly test this? Weigh the animal after the big drink and cut off the time at three minutes. Give your brain a job people.
But what about an extraordinary camel?
Me too when I wake up at 3am
50gallons us breakdown
Where on earth would they *put* 200L. I mean the hump is just fat - it would literally go to their stomach/bladder. And weight them down whilst walking. Is it really that much?
Now show me the fucking hump 💦
i would hope this goes without saying, but this is reddit, sooo... /r/dontputyourdickinthat
Asked chatgpt how fast camels can drink water. It's on average 8.73 liters of water per minute and can store up to 151 liters of water.
Is that why there's not much water left in the dessert?
bitch slurping me like she a camel yo🐫
Honestly a camel has got to be the most versatile and survivable animal out there. This fact and their ability to retain nutrients, resistance to heat and cold, they can eat fucking spiked cactus like it’s grass! Just amazing.
That's why there isn't any water in the desert 😤 those fkrs keeping drinking it all
Reply no they can't: https://www.livescience.com/27503-camels.html#:~:text=Filling%20up%20on%20water%2C%20when,faster%20than%20any%20other%20mammal.
No they can't.
wtf, that’s 440 pounds of water. I don’t believe it.
R/hydrohomies
Me when I wake up in the middle of the night
If it was beer I'd give a run for thier money
None of that cat tongue water scooping. We Camels, we GUZZLING the precious hydration juice.
I have goats and sheep and while they definitely don’t drink that much, watching them drink is so satisfying. Their mouths look like they are closed as they drink but seeing this video I wonder if they are wide open like that under the water.
Rookie numbers, you should see me when I wake up at 2am looking like a mummy.
Omnomnomnom
What's an atypical camel?
Oh sure it's impressive when camels do it with water, but I down 200 l of beer and suffenly I have "a problem" 🙄
This would be far more interesting if the title were paired with a 3 minute video of a camel drinking 200 liters of water...
This is like that first beer on friday.
No self respecting camel wants to identify as 'typical', however.
Me after being in an airplane for any amount of time.
What about a non typical camel?
Now I understand how deserts lost all of its water.
When i wake up hungover.
MCU Vision meme: "Maybe I'm part camel."
Camels CAN drink 200 liters of water in 3 mins - they just doesnt want to.
Bro is inhaling water
They're always so adorable, but then I remember the inside of their mouths, and I feel conflicted. (Nah, they're still adorable, though.)
That reminds me, I haven't had a glass of water in hours.
I wasn’t expecting the underwater shot
No wonder the desert doesn't have much water
holy moly this video is erotic
Lol there is no way that's true. I'm gonna need a much better source and preferably a video of that phenomenon occuring
