Is It True That Birds Can't Fart?

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Opinions are divided when it comes to this question. But Mike Murray, a veterinarian at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California, says: It's not that they can't. They just don't need to. 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.