Snake Science

[Linkizcool]

Can snakes fart? I don't wanna lose sleep over this.

[FFL2and3rocks]

Do turtles fart?
    (Question submitted by coolBettyann)

    Yes, turtles do fart, and their farts smell incredibly bad, as do the farts of snakes. In fact, it is my opinion, based on personal experience with reptiles and not on any formal research, that many reptiles use farts as a weapon.
    Reptile farts smell so bad that sometimes you can tell that one is nearby in the woods, even on a windy day, before you can see the animal. One day I was hiking through the woods in Arkansas with a friend and I told my friend, "I smell a snake fart." A second later, the snake crawled across the path. Astounding but true!
    In an article published in the December 2000 issue of Discover, "the world's leading expert on snake sounds," Bruce Young of LaFayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, affirmed that snakes do fart. The sonoran coral snake and the western hook-nosed snake fart with an audible popping sound when disturbed.

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Summary: Yes.

[Tomi]

Wow, I just read that whole thing.  Very cool.  And smelly.

[Linkizcool]

wow...that was interesting...

[Meiscool-2]

wtf brought up that question in your mind?

[Linkizcool]

I was watching an old classic movie where this kid goes to his dad and asks "can snakes fart?". then the question stuck in my head so I went to you guys

[Red XIII]

Thatīs one of the wierdest things Iīve ever heard.

So snakes fart.... Believe it or not!!!!!!

[DragonBlaze]

Yeah most animals have to fart, otherwise the gas build up would make then blow up, just like when you give a pigeon peptol bismol.

Another funny thing about snakes is that most of them are right-handed.

[Razor]

Originally posted by DragonBlaze
Yeah most animals have to fart, otherwise the gas build up would make then blow up, just like when you give a pigeon peptol bismol.

Holy crap, videos please!

[DragonBlaze]

Originally posted by Razor

quote:

Originally posted by DragonBlaze Yeah most animals have to fart, otherwise the gas build up would make then blow up, just like when you give a pigeon peptol bismol.

Holy crap, videos please!

Better yet, try it yourself They don't actually 'explote' but their stomache expands until it bursts and well, yeah. I think its with peptol bismol, though it may be some other stomache medicine. Err, maybe you shouldn't try it...

Originally posted by Meiscool

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Originally posted by DragonBlaze Another funny thing about snakes is that most of them are right-handed.

O_o

Its true! Though I'm not going to explain how/why. But it does have something to do with a snakes atonomy, particulary in males.

[Cerebus]

Most snakes are right-handed? What the hell!?! You sure of that? How can they be right-handed when they don't even have arms?

[FFL2and3rocks]

Snakes are supposed to have evolved from lizards that had legs (if you believe in evolution), so I guess most of those lizards were right-handed.

[DragonBlaze]

The key is here.

 

Its true! Though I'm not going to explain how/why. But it does have something to do with a snakes atonomy, particulary in males.

If you've taken biology and have ever had to study lizard/snake reproductive systems, you can probably guess how snakes are right 'handed'. If not, you probably looke like this 0.o

[charaman]

Originally posted by DragonBlaze

Better yet, try it yourself They don't actually 'explote' but their stomache expands until it bursts and well, yeah. I think its with peptol bismol, though it may be some other stomache medicine. Err, maybe you shouldn't try it...

My dad used to do it with seagulls. It works.

[Linkizcool]

you cruel people