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Cows, as it turns out, are highly borborygmic, though their gas does not pass through the anus but rather through the mouth. Indeed, cows produce 60 million tons of methane gas a year from their ruminative digestive practices and burp it into the atmosphere, producing more than 15% of the world’s methane each year. (Adam Bresnick, “Baedeker for the Bowels,” Los Angeles Times, 11/14/1999.)