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Does it fart? The burning science question on Twitter that has led to a database of trumping animals

Does it fart? The burning science question on Twitter that has led to a database of trumping animals
Does it fart? The burning science question on Twitter that has led to a database of trumping animals Does it fart? The burning science question on Twitter that has led to a database of trumping animals

The world was not ready for a Twitter debate about animals farting.

But a Twitterstorm was brewing – just a few weeks after scientists had a raging discussion about which animal has the #bestspots – and it led to one of the most hilarious debates ever.

It started when Daniella Rabaiotti, a PhD student at the Zoological Society of London, asked David Steen, an ecologist at Auburn University in Alabama, whether snakes fart.

Here’s what Steen replied.

yes.

https://t.co/Y2L00dcDZV

— David Steen, Ph.D. (@AlongsideWild) January 8, 2017

And so the debate began. Biologists, ecologists and zoologists amused themselves online by listing animals that break wind.

Even the non-scientists were enjoying it.

Then Nicholas Caruso, a PhD candidate at Alabama University, decided to start creating a fart database on Google Sheets, because why not?

Marine biologist Jeff Clements, from the University of Prince Edward Island, is seeing a bright future in this area of research.

Even though he claimed he was joking.

Then, excited about the progress the internet was making on #DoesItFart, scientists started a second debate – #DoesItPuke.

Long live science!