Er, yes, you can poop in the ocean. Like ten trillion fish. On most offshore sailboats, the toilets pumps straight into the ocean.

blue whale

Okay, so here’s the conclusion I’ve reached: no, the ants won’t die. And they won’t explode when they get to the top, either. “A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes.” Many readers pointed out that ants were too small and weighed way too little for them to suffer any damage when it hit the ground.

Once mating is over, the male will soon die. When done mating, the queen will fly to a suitable spot to start her colony. Once there, the queen ant will remove her wings. Some species chew them off, others chew them off and eat them, and others rip them off with their legs.

Yes, ants do fart. The Microbiology of Belches and Farts. If ants fart like termites, things are a lot worse.

Ants poop, but can they fart? There’s little research on this topic, but many experts say “no” – at least not in the same way we do. It makes sense that ants can’t pass gas. Some of the most effective ant killers cause them to bloat up and because they have no way to pass the gas, they explode – literally.

Fizzle is thought to be an alteration of the Middle English fist (“flatus”), which in addition to providing us with the verb for breaking wind quietly, was also munificent enough to serve as the basis for a now-obsolete noun meaning “a silent fart” (feist).

The trickiest question for the scientists was figuring out if sloths fart. Sloths may be mammals like us, but it turns out they don’t fart at all. Instead, they emit nasty methane gas out of their mouths.