Who amongst us hasn’t wondered if a snake can fart? Dani Rabiotti, a quantitative ecologist, posed that question to Twitter in 2017. Her inquiry into animal flatulence went viral, of course. From ...

It all began with a teenager's typical and seemingly inconsequential question that stumped a dedicated zoologist: "Do snakes fart?" It all began with a teenager’s typical and seemingly inconsequential ...

Scientists are embarking on the noblest of data-gathering missions, delivering us laypeople the animal information we all sorely wanted but were too timid to ask about. Which animals fart? The open, ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. It all started with a simple question: "Do snakes fart?" Dani Rabaiotti had no idea. But the zoologist ...

The definitive field guide for animal flatulence is finally here. “Does it Fart?” (Hachette) is an illustrated book about the fart capabilities of the animal kingdom. In the tome, authors Dani ...

Flatulence is one of those universal bodily functions that doesn’t get a lot of attention—except when it’s impossible to ignore. In the animal kingdom, some species are gas-producing machines, while ...

Colleen Mercier normally doesn’t like clutter in her house, but seeing stacked boxes of remote-controlled, flatulence-sounding machines in her living room has brought her some much-needed joy. Colleen ...

It all began with a teenager’s typical and seemingly inconsequential question that stumped a dedicated zoologist: “Do snakes fart?” (The answer, by the way, is mostly yes. But we’ll get to that and ...