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People have devoted careers to finding out which animals can vomit. A fellow named Borison has numerous entries on the final table -- assuming it's the same per
by etal 18y ago
People have devoted careers to finding out which animals can vomit. A fellow named Borison has numerous entries on the final table -- assuming it's the same person, this bright spark hit the scene in 1953 with the finding that crab-eating macaques and rhesus monkeys can spew; and decades later, in 1981, he followed up with the surprising finding that while most rodents can't upchuck, the woodchuck could.
- tdavis 18y agoMy God. You're right. I don't really know what to think here.
- shimon 18y agoI'm thinking we need to register vomitr.com and crowdsource this. A community of people answering the question: Is your favorite pet species vomiting right now?
- LogicHoleFlaw 18y agoUnfortunately, yes. I just spent the last few evenings steam cleaning my carpets because my dog has a very sensitive digestive system...
- tdavis 18y agoImagine our fortune if we were to engineer a non-vomiting dog! Also, cats. No more hair balls. Growing up around no less than 2 dogs and a cat throughout my entire adolescence gives me a desire for this tech. It would also make a good Founder story!
- jcl 18y agoI found it mildly amusing that dogs are the only entry in the table besides humans that "responds to all known emetics". While I don't own a dog, from what I've read of Dave Barry, dogs excel at locating and responding to all unknown emetics, too.
- felideon 18y agoI don't know why, but that is very interesting indeed, as is the article.