Can You Guess: Do Animals Fart Or Not

Researchers take on the most important encounters of our time, like resolving climate change, hostile about cancer, exploring the outer lands of our universe, or characterizing matter itself. But occasionally they answer questions like whether frogs fart.

This week, a upkeep researcher named Dani Rabaiotti at University College London took to Twitter to ask associate ecologists and biologists an significant question: #Doesitfart? Ever searching for knowledge, responders created an open spreadsheet to log whether or not diverse species pass gas.

Flatulence happens when gases that have been inadvertently swallowed or produced while breaking down food outflow through the anus. Human farts range in volume from "a bottle of nail polish to a can of soda," and the smells differ depending on the types of gases they're made of-hydrogen sulfide and ammonia are mainly pungent.

Although we all fart, not all animals do. The table below is what scientists could provide. Some of the answers are clearly silly-we have no idea if aliens fart and extinct animals like mastodons certainly don't-but some include perceptive scientific observation.

More interesting than whether animals fart, though, were some of the supplementary descriptions in the notes section. So, do animals fart? Yes, they do fart.