Long tongue head

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The birds have an extremely large range, so they're a pretty common sight in the wild. But the same can't be said for their freakishly long tongues. But let us assure you: the photo is no fake. The green woodpecker's tongue is quite the marvel — it's so long, in fact, that it has to coil behind the skull , over the eyes and into the right nostril in order to fit inside the bird's head:. Measuring in at ten centimetres 3. For a bit of perspective, if your tongue were that long, it would stretch out at around half a metre 1. As is the case with most peculiar body parts in the natural world, there's a resonable explanation here, and it's got to do with food.

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By Richard Fisher. A rare South American bat turns out to have a spectacularly long tongue. Anoura fistulata is only the size of a mouse, but its tongue is around 8. Compared with its body, a tongue of this size is second only to the chameleon in terms of vertebrates, and it is the longest of all the mammals. Such a small animal has had to evolve a way to store the tongue.