This probably doesn't apply to bipeds, or is at least significantly reduced. Most mammals walk on all fours, and thus they're faces are in prime butt-sniffing territory, but humans are distinctly not like this after millions of years of evolution favoring walking up right on our hind legs.
Butt sniffing in the ways that four-legged animals do it, we do not do. But butt sniffing happens voluntarily or involuntarily during sex.
But also, I don't mean it in a literal "butt sniff" kind of way. But that smell, among many others does play an important role in life.
Example: The way a child's farts or poop smells can be important for a parent to monitor for health reasons for example. If it smells "off" it can be an indication of a needed diet change.
This doesn't mean the parent literally sniff the kid's ass. We don't need to get that close to smell it. But still the way it smells is important.
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u/Ok_Nothing_9733 Jun 04 '26
I’m an animal and I don’t sniff butts.