Do whales fart?
A few years ago, 10-year-old Guy was driving along the Australian coast when he saw whales, spouting water up into the air. He was amazed. “Then my brother farted, and then I wondered if whales fart,” says Guy.
Guy joined our host Eloise to put his question to Vanessa Pirotta, a wildlife scientist at Macquarie University in Australia on this week’s episode of The Conversation’s Curious Kids podcast.
In each episode of The Conversation’s Curious Kids, a curious kid joins host Eloise to ask a top researcher their burning question. This episode is a follow-on from the episode “Do whales sneeze?” in our first season.
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This season of The Conversation’s Curious Kids is supported by the University of Southampton in the UK, a world-leading research-intensive university with a global network of international students and campuses in Malaysia and Delhi.
Disclosure statement
Vanessa Pirotta does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
Credits
This episode of The Conversation’s Curious Kids was hosted and mixed by Eloise Stevens. The producer was Katie Flood and the executive producer was Gemma Ware. Audio clips from Finding Nemo, and seal pup sounds from schaarsen and whale noise from kaekhor via Freesound.
