Labels:text | mammal | camel | animal | screenshot | cattle | outdoor OCR: Blobal Nelurs Saharan water refreshes local camels The 'ship of the desert' is firmly attached to the number 20. Camels can go for 20 days without water. They can drink twenty gallons of water - and they can spit their greenish colored sticky saliva up to 20 feet in distance! Camels are the main beasts of burden for the nomadic tribespeople that roam the Sahara desert, and their usefulness outweighs the problem of their terrible bad breath. CLICK TO ENLARGE PHOTOGRAPH