[laughs]

... um, actually serve a lot of physiological functions for us.

So early in the postmortem interval, those bacteria are going to start to kinda take over 'cause our body systems no, are l- no longer keeping that load in homeostasis or keeping their activity ranged in.

So they will, to overly generalize, they'll start to feed on the organ systems that they live in, and then that is going to cause them to, you know, metabolize as they feed.

Byproduct of that is typically the release of gases.

So the release of those gases are going to become entrapped in major lumen in the body, so, like, the stomach, and that's why we see the stomach kind of expand or bloat.

And then as tissue dissolution continues, those gases are going to be able to begin to escape via other routes.

I feel like I, I knocked you off, uh, track earlier when you were talking about the magpies.