Scientists prove fish farting to be a fact (now with sound)

[glenn1]

Good thing scientists are on the ball, else we may not have known this...

 

[Heisenberg]

And they say you can't do anything useful with a biology degree...

 

[johnjohn320]

Complete with sound samples! What the hell is a raspberry supposed to sound like?

 

[Looney]

Originally posted by: johnjohn320
What the hell is a raspberry supposed to sound like?

Kinda like a fish fart.

 

[biffbacon]

im speechless....
and some poor scientist goes to work everyday thinking about fish farts.... wow

 

[Amorphus]

Courtesy of
"The World's No.1 Science & Technology News Service"

Sounds like the Onion, except New Scientist wants us to take this seriously.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Evidently nobody there has ever cleaned and gutted a freshly caught fish.

 

[klein297]

Arthur Popper, an aquatic bio-acoustic specialist at the University of Maryland, US, is also intrigued. "I'd not have thought of it, but fish do very strange and diverse things," he says

They eat, crap,and fart.
Diverse indeed

 

[AreaCode707]

Did anybody actually read the article? In there it says that this isn't the product of digestive processes (there goes the fish farting idea) and that they think it's a form of "communication" allowing the fish (herring to be specific) to locate each other. Impacts range from this being a way for fishermen to locate schools of fish to conservation issues to YET MORE argument about sonar underwater.

There, there's your cliffnotes, you bunch of lazy junior highers.

 

[klein297]

Since my Gouramis communicate mosly with their feelers,
I'll still believe the bubbles coming from their nether regions are a sign of a satisfactory meal.
Thanks for the jhs compliment though.
Some of us just never seem to get any older