Do rabbits fart?

Quite simply – yes. In fact, nearly all animals do, as it’s a necessary part of digesting food.

Nearly all animals?

Well, almost. If by ‘fart’ you mean ‘release gas from the gut’, then all animals with guts will, in fact, fart. Insects, fish, lizards, snakes, cats, dogs, mice, elephants . . . almost any creature you can think of. In fact, the only ones that don’t fart are those that didn’t evolve guts – like sponges, jellyfish and some types of worm. Guts are for taking in food and plopping out waste products, and these animals either absorb food through the surface of their bodies, or eat and poo through the same hole.

Gross. I think I’d rather have guts.

Absolutely. But then you have no choice but to fart. As food is digested in the gut, gases are made from the chemical reactions inside. So it’s either fart or starve for most animals. Including us.

Really?! You mean you have to fart? That’s brilliant!

Well, again, that depends on what you mean by ‘fart’. If you mean ‘release gas from your bottom’, then, yes – you have to.. It’s happening all the time, whether you like it or not. But if you mean ‘trumpet loudly and award yourself a mark out of ten’, then no – this isn’t strictly necessary.

Curses. So farts are just food gas from our guts, then?

Well, that’s not the whole story. Most animals (including us) also have bacteria living in their guts that release more gases as they, too, break down food. Many animals – particularly plant-eaters like rabbits – couldn’t live without these bacteria in their guts. For land animals, some fart gas also comes from air swallowed with food accidentally. All this gas has to go somewhere, so it gets pushed along with the food to the animal’s bottom . . . and you know the rest. Of course, some animals fart more than others.

OK – which ones? I have to know...

Some animals produce so much fart gas that it spreads around the planet’s atmosphere and plays a role in global warming. Scientists used to think cows were one of the worst for this, but it turns out that it’s probably their burps, rather than their farts, that do it. Termite farts, on the other hand, produce more methane (one of the gases involved in global warming) than all of our cars, planes and factories put together! The termites can’t help this, of course. It’s because they need more of those gut bacteria than most animals in order to digest their woody diet. But it has earned them the number one spot in our Top 10 animals that fart list. The rest are in no particular order, other than how stinky I’ve found them to be.

Top 10 animals that fart

1. Termites
2. Camels
3. Zebras
4. Sheep
5. Cows
6. Elephants
7. Labradors/Retrievers
8. Humans (vegetarian)
9. Humans (others)
10. Gerbils

Сокращенный, но не очень грамотный перевод для наших друзей в России
бходимой частью переваривание продовольствия.

Почти все животные?

Да, почти. Если Пук это непроивльное явления 'выпустить газ из кишок', то все животные с кишками пердятю Пердят  насекомые, рыбы, ящерицы, змеи, кошки, собаки, мыши, слоны.. почти любое существо, вы можете думать о.

В самом деле только те, которые не пердят являются те, которые не развиваются кишки – такие как губки, медузы и некоторые типы червя. Кишки предназначены для принятия в продуктах питания и вывода отходов производства, и эти животные поглощать продовольствия через поверхность их тела и выпускаю отходы также.

Ну это не вся история. Большинство животных (включая нас) также имеют бактерий, живущих в их кишках, которые выделяют дополнтельное количество  в процессе переваривания продовольствия.

Самые большие пердуны среди животных

Термиты

Верблюды

Зебры

Овцы

Коровы

Слоны

Лабрадоры-Ретриверы

Люди вегетарианцы

Люди

Пердите сами, пердите с нами, пердите громче нас!

Fish Farts in Japanese Fart Scrolls.

I was doing research for another post a while back, and found something a bit…unusual. It was an old Japanese scroll about farting.

No, you didn’t misread that last sentence. The whole scroll, which is called He-Gassen (“The Fart Battle”) is just about people farting. Farting at other people, farting at cats, farting off of horses, farting into bags; just farting everywhere.

Why? I couldn’t really tell you. I’ve tried to do some research but, believe it or not, academic literature on Japanese farting is surprisingly few and far between.

I found some relevant articles on my old university’s academic databases, but the only way I could obtain them would be to request them printed out and go pick them up. Which, you know, isn’t something I really want to do.

I can only imagine what it would be like if I went back to school to pick up my fart literature:
“Hi, how can we help you?”
“I’m here to pick up some articles I put on hold.”
“Sure, what are they about?”
“Well, they’re, um, about farting.”
“…”

I did find out enough to know that this isn’t the only farting scroll out there in existence – in fact, in the 90s, a collection of fart scrolls sold for $1,500 at the famous Christie’s auction house. I am not making this up.

I also found out that the famous uikyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi also dabbled in fart art, painting a piece depicting dudes farting at each other.

Perhaps the greatest piece of this farting scroll is a giant panorama of four dudes farting into a building, and the chaos ensuing within. Click on the picture below for the full-sized version because really, it’s not something you wanna miss out on.

In the end, I think I tried to read too far into this. I kept expecting to find some deep cultural explanation as to why these guys made whole scrolls about farting. But I think it really just boils down to one universal truth: farts are funny.

We can pretend that our senses of humor are more sophisticated than that, but let’s face it: when somebody lets one rip, you’re going to chuckle.

And, as if this wasn’t enough, we made a video for this too. Conspiracy? Maybe. Aliens? Definitely.

As far as the bouquet of smells that can be generated by consumption of dead fish and partially fermented soy beans, we are leaving it to your olphactory imagination!

A Guide to the Identification and Classification of North American Farters

 

Learning- or better still, thinking up- names for fart types is a traditional early-adolescent ritual.

Similarly, methods of identifying the sources of a fart are a subject of peer-group, or tribal, speculation, the usual rule of thumb being "Who smelled it, dealt it," or "The smeller's the teller."

Occasionally, this oral tradition has achieved the level of Xerox publication, but never before has a systematic analysis, along the lines of Jane's Fighting ships or A Field Guide to the Birds, been attempted in print. Tentatively, then, we present the following.


Liar
People who blame other people when he farts



Empty-headed men
People who hold the fart very long



Smart
People who know when to fart

Suffer

People who want to fart but can not



Mysterious
People who fart reply, anyone else do not know



Nervous
People who suddenly hold their farts



Confident
People who farts in public and tell others that he is farts


Sadist
A person who after farts, he waved his fart to the others


Shy
People who fart but has no sound, and ashamed himself



Strategic
People who hides his fart with laughter


Stingy #1
A person who after farts, he breath as much as he can to replace the fart



Stingy #2
People who fart a little bit



Friendly
People who liked to smell other peoples fart



Aquatic
People who like to fart in the water

Honest

People who admit if he farts



Athletic
People who need energy if they want to fart




We are farting with you, for you, and on your behalf!