Kangaroo Farts Reduce Global Warming !

We are all familiar with cows and how they produce the majority of methane gas in the atmosphere that causes global warming. But not all animals produce farts that release large amounts of methane. In a recent study researchers discovered that kangaroos are different. They are special because unlike cows their farts contain less methane than cows, and this is due to a distinct mixture of microbes that are located in the kangaroo’s gut. The study found that the reason cows produce so a lot of methane is the majority of microbes in the digestive tract were methanogens, which are methane producing microbes. But among the kangaroos the microbes they contained were acetogens, which produce a substance called acetate. What was interesting was that both the cows and the kangaroos had a combination of the methanogens and acetogens, but why was it that in cows the methanogens outnumbered that acetogens and produced more methane and why in kangaroos were there more acetogens and few methanogens to produce more acetate and less methane. This is what the puzzled the research team and this is what they need to focus on. This study is very important because it could lead to cutting methane emissions from farm animals to slow down the affects of global warming. This article was very informative and interesting and the author did a good job of explaining it, the author wrote in humorous tone, which helps keep the reader interested and there was glossary at the end that was very useful for some of the vocabulary. 

https://student.societyforscience.org/article/kangaroos-have-green-farts