Sort of, mostly yes, but never fodder or water. This is the great advantage of the camel: if a camel train rolls into a caravanserai, and the available fodder

Sort of, mostly yes, but never fodder or water. This is the great advantage of the camel: if a camel train rolls into a caravanserai, and the available fodder at that oasis has been eaten, there's a good change they'll make it to the next oasis with thin, very unhappy, camels. Mules would just die.