They were fantastic and looked like they belonged in a cartoon or a funny graphic novel. I know I’m in the minority here as plenty of reviewers are talking about how hilarious this book is but the illustrations stole the show for me. Even the entry about unicorns mostly compared them to horses, cows and rhinos, making the assumption that because each of these animals fart then a unicorn would be likely to as well. I did like learning smelly facts including an animal that uses their farts to kill prey, another that uses farts to communicate and one that will die if they don’t fart, but I found these facts interesting rather than funny. There was other information about each animal including details of scent glands and digestive enzymes, how many species of that animal exist and where they’re found along with the animal’s scientific name, but I didn’t need to laugh at all while I read. Had I simply expected information telling me that this animal farts because it eats a plant based diet and has a certain type of stomach and digestive system, or this animal farts because it eats a meat based diet and has certain type of stomach and digestive system, I would have been satisfied. There are some interesting facts and you do find out the answers regarding whether an animal farts, doesn’t fart or maybe farts, but I found it was written in such a clinical way that the only laughs I got out of the book came from the illustrations. Then I found I was disappointed because my expectations didn’t match the reality of this book. In the introduction I read that “Not all farts are created equal” and that confirmed to me that this was definitely the book for me, so I eagerly read on. I was anticipating a book with some facts but more laughs. Finally it arrived and I thought about ordering it through my local library but quickly determined that I needed it now, so downloaded it to my Kindle and started reading straight away. Yet I still desperately needed to read it ASAP so I waited as patiently as possible for the release date. My heart sank and I experienced one of my biggest NetGalley disappointments to date. Then my email notification arrived letting me know I was denied access to this title. I read the blurb, knew immediately that I needed this book in my life, hit the Request button and waited. You know those facts that you didn’t know you needed to know until you read a blurb and realise that you urgently need to know this vital information? Well, that sums up how I felt when I discovered Does It Fart? on NetGalley. Orangutans, clever beasts, seem to enjoy farting and like to make raspberry noises as counterpoint to their toots, especially when lying in their nests at night. Most creatures do, but octopuses do not, and no one is sure if bats do. Whether or not a creature farts depends on the design of it's intestinal tract and if it eats fibre. They are world-class farters and not only feast on human food, they fart over it as well. Cockroaches can not only run around when beheaded they can fart too. One to three minutes later the termites will just lie on their backs with their legs waving around. When hungry it directs the tip of its abdomen to a termite's head and toots out a deadly gas cloud. However, the beaded lacewing, a pretty insect is a ferocious carnivore as a larva. The terrible, eye-watering smell that you try and pretend you aren't reeling backwards from, the sort where the Queen tightens her lips and gives side-eye to Prince Philip when she lets one loose. Silent but deadly farts are the worst kind. What foods make hyena farts smell especially bad? What is a fossa, and does it fart? Why do clams vomit but not fart? What is a fart, anyway? With contributions from dozens of biologists, Does it Fart? is a book that will allow you to shift the blame onto all kinds of unlikely animals for years to come. Herrings do it to communicate with each other.Īt the beginning of 2017, an innocent question on twitter about snakes formed the hashtag #doesitfart and spread pungently across the internet - and major newspapers - as dozens of experts weighed in on which animals do and don't fart, and if they do, how much, how often, what it's made of, what it smells like, and what it's for.ĭoes it Fart? is the result: the fully authoritative, fully illustrated guide to animal flatulence, covering the habits of 80 animals in more detail than you ever knew you needed. Birds don't do it, but they could if they wanted to. Spiders might do it: more research is needed. The ultimate guide to animal flatulence: the perfect gift for anyone who has ever farted.ĭogs do it.
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