Finally, Science Answers the Burning Question: Is It True Birds Can't Fart?

My quest for all the knowledge in the world has finally concluded with this bombshell revelation in Popular Science magazine:

"It's not true that (birds) can't (fart). They just don't need to, says Mike Murray, a veterinarian at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Birds have the anatomical and physical ability to pass gas, he explains, 'but if I saw gas in a bird's gastrointestinal tract on an x-ray, I'd suspect that something abnormal was going on there'.

Birds don't typically carry the same kinds of gas-forming bacteria in their gut as humans and other mammals to help digest food, so there's nothing to let loose. Parrots sometimes emit fart-like sounds, but it's not what you might think. 'They like to make playful sounds like they're giving you a raspberry, but it's coming from the north end, not the south', Murray says.


Sorry. I always laugh out loud at fart humor. It's a weakness. But after inhaling my cat's emissions this morning over breakfast cereal, I think I may consider purchasing a bird.

They eat with their peckers.

It's liquid and it splatters.

At least the cat buries it.

However, I know what you mean. Mine likes to cuddle up next to me at night with her head pointing at my feet and fire away.

My idiotic Maine Coon cat farts a lot. Like an 8-year-old, when she does, she looks all surprised and offended that someone would create such a foul odor and walks away in disgust. She knows she did it, but tries to deflect the guilt elsewhere.

I suspect her of being a closet Freeper...

my cat pansy and i knew another cat with white who had a serious farting problem. no farts from any of my other cats. except when i gave them that purina indoor food.