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Some animals boast the largest teeth, others have their tails, and some have simply amazingly long tongues.

Bat

The owner of the longest tongue, as much as 8 cm! turned out to be the bat Anoura fistulata. It would seem not a lot, but if you compare this size with the length of her entire torso, which does not exceed 6 cm, it turns out quite impressive. She needs such a long tongue to get nectar from an 8-centimeter corolla of a tropical flower. By the way, the tongue does not fit in the oral cavity, so a special place is defined for it in the chest.

Woodpecker

Everyone knows that a woodpecker knocks on a tree to break the bark and get small bugs or larvae from under it, but he grabs them not at all with his beak, but with his tongue 10 centimeters long. At the tip of its tongue there are special hooks with which the feathered one grabs food and drags it into its mouth. But that's not all, do you think the tongue is hiding in your mouth? Not so, it was wrapped around the skull and attached by the root to the nostril.

Echidna

The muzzle of this creature ends with an elongated nose and mouth, nothing unusual, but a long thin tongue is located in the mouth, covered with a sticky liquid that the salivary glands produce, it helps the echidna to collect insects on the tongue. The length of the part of the tongue that can come out is 18 cm and is slightly less hidden in the mouth.

Giraffe

It turns out that the giraffe has not only the longest neck, but also a very long, dexterous tongue about 45 cm long. It is thanks to him that the giraffe easily tears leaves from thorny trees.

Chameleon

This lizard simply could not fail to be included in the list along with its tongue, the length of which is usually equal to the length of the body, on average it is about 50 cm.

Ant-eater

These amazing animals are completely devoid of teeth, but they do not really need them. They feed on termites and ants, which are taken from the shelter with sticky long tongues. For example, in a giant anteater, it reaches 60 cm in length, and the frequency of movements can reach up to 160 times per minute.

Komodo dragon

The largest lizard in the world, which sometimes exceeds 3 meters in length, has a corresponding tongue about 70 cm long. Monitor lizards are predatory reptiles and, moreover, poisonous. Having bitten the victim, they can pursue it from several hours to several days, waiting until it falls from the poison.

Some birds have very long tongues, there are owners of tongues of extraordinary length among animals. In addition, there is evidence for long languages \u200b\u200bin humans. It is interesting to know about all these "champions".

The longest tongue of a bird

Oddly enough, the woodpecker has the longest tongue among all birds. This is not a large bird, its size varies from fifteen to fifty-three centimeters, while the tongue reaches sizes from fifteen to twenty centimeters. It turns out that the length of the tongue is several times longer than the beak.

Woodpeckers live almost everywhere, but woodlands are preferable for their residence. The reason is in the lifestyle and diet of these birds. Their main food is insects living on trees. When foraging for food, the woodpecker uses its beak like a jackhammer, making holes in the bark of trees in this way. This opens up the food passages in which insects hide. With its amazing length tongue the bird pulls them out of these holes.

It's amazing that a woodpecker's tongue can stretch out and become so thin that it can easily penetrate even an ant's passage. There is a special gland on the tongue, due to which the tongue becomes covered with a sticky liquid, which is why insects simply stick to it.

The tongue is anchored in the right nostril, not in the mouth. At the same time, it, dividing into two parts, encircles the head and neck, then it is inserted into the beak through a special hole, where it connects again. It turns out that at a time when the woodpecker does not use its tongue, it is behind its neck, under the skin, and also in the nostril.

A number of experts argue that such a structure of the language is evidence of intelligent activity, and not the result of gradual evolution.

Long Tongue Girls

There is such an expression as "too long tongue." This is often said about those who are not averse to gossiping or discussing a person. However, in the world people have long languages \u200b\u200bin the literal, and not only in the figurative sense of the word. It is not clear how the extra-long tongue fits in the mouth of such people.

There are many photos on the Internet in which you can see girls and not only, demonstrating their long tongues. Annika Imler is the official long-tongued woman. The outer part of her tongue is seven centimeters. Another record holder is Chanel Tapper, who lives in California. The length of her tongue is 9.8 centimeters.

The longest tongue in an animal

There are a large number of animals with very long tongues. Until recently, it was believed that the longest tongue of a chameleon. In this animal, the length of the tongue and the length of the body are always approximately the same. On average, the length of the tongue reaches fifty centimeters. In a large and long individual, the tongue is correspondingly longer. It is impossible to see it elongated in full length with the naked eye. Only slow-motion shooting can help, since the chameleon's tongue throws out only 0.05 seconds. By making well-aimed "shots" with their tongue, animals provide themselves with food.

The longest tongue among known mammals belongs to the South American bat, which is considered quite rare. Her tongue is 1.5 times longer than her body. The bat keeps its tongue in the ribcage, while the tongue somehow contracts three times and sits between the heart and sternum in a special place.

This mammal was discovered only in 2003 in Ecuador. The pioneer was an American biologist who was quite surprised to find that the tongue was fifty percent longer than the body of a mouse. So, its length is about 8.5 centimeters, and the body length of this bat is about 5-6 centimeters.

The South American bat feeds on the nectar of a flower with an extremely long corolla. Its name is Centropogon nigricans. Only the tongue of this little bat can "reach" the nectar inside this flower. In half a second, the mammal's tongue has time to dive for nectar into the “flower tube” seven times. It turns out that these flowers can only be pollinated by this species of bats. It seems that nature created them for each other.

The longest tongue in the world

You can take stock by finding out who speaks the longest language in the entire world. The longest tongue in the world among animals has a chameleon, among all species of birds - a woodpecker, but among mammals it is a rare species of bat that lives in Ecuador. Among the people, the record holder is Stephen Taylor. With an average length of a human tongue of five centimeters, its tongue did not reach ten centimeters in length, only two millimeters. Measurements are made from the center of the upper lip to the very tip of the tongue, that is, only the outer part is measured.

One cannot but mention the length of the language of some more representatives of our planet. So, in snakes, the tongue can reach twenty-five centimeters in length, the tongue of cows reaches forty-five centimeters, the giraffe, trying to reach the leaves, stretches the tongue forty-five centimeters. The anteater, deprived of teeth, is forced to get food with a sixty centimeter tongue. The largest lizard (Komodo monitor lizard) has a tongue up to seventy centimeters long.

The owner of the longest in the world and at the same time the largest language is the blue whale, which is also called the blue whale. His tongue can be three meters long. The whale uses its tongue to filter the krill, which enters its mouth along with water.

The chameleon and blue whale are definitely unique animals. But there are creatures that are simply amazing. As the website correspondents found out, the hair of some dogs is longer than a meter, and some animals are more like plants. You can read more about this in the article on the most unusual animals in the world.
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Who has the longest tongue?

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10th place: Full language first appeared in reptiles, namely lizards and snakes. And he is also one of the most difficult in nature, since it is a real chemical laboratory... The snake, having touched an object lying in front of it and thus taking a "sample", then draws in the tongue and applies its tips to the sensitive pits located on the inner surface of the mouth. The smallest amount of substance from the outside is enough for the reptile to make a "microchemical analysis" and take the trail of the victim, find a partner during the mating season, or find a way to a water source.

9th place: Tongue of a chameleon is a skillful hunting apparatus with a sticky trap at the end.

8th place: Some ducks, which forage by filtering water and bottom silt, have a fringe along the edges of the tongue, which helps to retain crustaceans, insect larvae and small fish. In hummingbirds, the tongue rolls up into a tube and helps pump out the flower nectar.

7th place: The tongue of parrots with a hard horny covering is an ideal tool for crushing small nuts: taking a seed in its mouth, the bird presses on it with its tongue, pressing it strongly against the inside of the beak until the shell cracks. In lorikeet parrots, the tongue at the end is equipped with a brush, with the help of which they collect the juice of the fruits crushed by their beak.

6th place: The tongue of cats is a real grater that allows them to strip meat from the bones of the victim.

5th place: Ruminants use their tongues as we use our hands. Cows and giraffes tightly grab bundles of grass, leaves or branches with their tongues in the same way as a human would do with their hand, and then, plucking them, send the food into their mouth for chewing.

4th place: The anteater's tongue has turned into a sticky fishing rod up to 60 cm long, which he then launches into the anthill, then pulls it into his mouth with a frequency of 160 times per minute.

3rd place: The tongue can be used like a spoon. Most mammals drink lapping, that is, scooping up small portions of water with the end of their tongue. Analysis of frames of accelerated filming showed that the dog turns its end up, and the cat, on the contrary, bends down.

2nd place: In humans, the language is the main taster. Each tongue contains 300-5,000 taste buds. They are short-lived, live only 10 days: new ones grow to replace the old ones. The root part of the tongue is responsible for the perception of bitter, the front edges of the tongue react to the salty taste, the deep edges to the sour, and only its end to the sweet. Therefore, do not stuff the candy deeply or fill your mouth full of them: the pleasure will not be great.

1st place: Woodpeckers have the most amazing language. Looking for insects in the bark and trunks of trees, the woodpecker gouges a hole with its beak, but the length of the beak is not enough to get the larvae hidden in the wood. Here a flexible tongue with horny hooks at the tip comes to the rescue: the woodpecker launches it into a tree passage and, having groped for its prey, deftly picks it up. The tongue, which is already long, can also be extended out of the oral cavity using a long tape that goes around the entire skull and is attached to the nostril.

Can you imagine a 50 centimeters long tongue? Half a meter! Its owner can easily clasp your hand and quite pull towards him. And he is also the only one on the planet who can pick his tongue in his ear !!! What is it ?!

The owner of this treasure is, as you might have guessed, a giraffe. It is the giraffe that has the longest and most advanced tongue among all animals. Well, the fact that he is an unreal sweetheart and there is nothing to say at all!

Photos and text Sergey Anashkevich

By the way, a giraffe is almost a deer, well, at least 15 million years ago it was so, and then each of them went its own evolutionary path.

It is believed that Julius Caesar brought the first giraffe to Europe. The word "giraffe" itself is of Arabic origin - zarafa, which means "smart", this is how these animals were called for a long time. By the way, the word passed into the Russian language in the feminine gender and remained so until the reform of 1918. The scientific name, of course, remained with the Romans. And since he reminded them of a mixture of a camel and a leopard, the whole family received the name Giraffa camelopardalis.

2. Their tongue is black and almost 50 cm long, it is so mobile that a giraffe can pick in the ear with the tip of its tongue.

3. Also, giraffes are the only animals that cannot yawn. For a long time it was believed that they are voiceless (hiss, growls and whistles are not counted), but it turned out that they communicate with each other at frequencies below 20 Hz, which a person does not hear.

4. The neck can be up to 2 m and consists of only 7 vertebrae.

5. The eyes are set so that the animal can see in all directions without turning the head. And giraffes also have color vision.

6. Giraffes love raw onions. It takes them 16 to 20 hours to eat a day.

7. Sessions of rest (on legs) last no more than 10 minutes, sleep lying on the ground, tucking your front legs under you and bending your head back - no more than 1 hour.

8. The weapon of defense - hooves, the diameter of the front ones reaches 23 cm. Giraffes never use heavy weapons against their fellow tribesmen - a chopping blow from top to bottom with their front legs. The only predator that dares to hunt them is the lion. It is known that giraffes killed even attacking lions by blowing their hooves.

9. And now the most unusual thing. And again about the language. A giraffe has to kneel down or spread its front legs wide apart to lift something off the floor or drink water from the river.

But how can water get into the stomach if it is located above the mouth? It turns out that giraffes, like many ruminants like cows and sheep, use their tongue as a piston to pump water up the esophagus.

This is a typical piston pump in action. By immersing its lips in water, the giraffe pulls back its jaw, and water is sucked into the mouth. Then the lips close, the epiglottis relaxes, and the jaw pushes water into the esophagus at a speed of 3 m / s - it is enough to withstand the pressure of water already accumulated in the esophagus. As soon as the giraffe decides that it has sucked enough, it lifts its neck and water is sucked into the stomach by gravity.

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The chameleon's tongue is recognized as the "fastest" in the animal kingdom. Its speed can reach up to 100 km per hour. During the hunt, the chameleon sits motionlessly on a tree branch for a long time and rotates its huge bulging eyes, tracking down prey. Noticing a fly or a grasshopper, he immediately throws out his tongue and grabs the victim, immediately putting his tongue back into his mouth. Thus, this organ appears in all its glory and length only for a fraction of a second, and it can be seen well only in slow motion.

In three seconds a chameleon can catch up to 4 insects! Also, the tongue of this unusual lizard is incredible in size: it often exceeds the length of the chameleon's body.

Blue Tongue Skink Tongue

The characteristic feature of this “cute” reptile from Australia is its cobalt blue tongue.

Bat tongue out South America

Scientists have found an incredibly long tongue in one of the species of bats from Ecuador. With its help, the animal manages to extract nectar from a flower called Centropogon nigricans, which has a very long corolla. The animal and the plant seem to have been specially created for each other. No one else from the kingdom of animals and insects is able to feast on the nectar of this flower!

Giraffe tongue

Since the giraffe is the tallest animal on the planet, it is not surprising that its tongue is one of the longest - up to 50 cm! In addition, this organ is distinguished by extraordinary strength and dexterity. With its help, the giraffe easily picks off the foliage from the trees; and the stratum corneum, which reliably protects the tongue, allows the animal to feast on acacia leaves without fear of being hurt by the sharp thorns of this plant.

Woodpecker tongue

The woodpecker takes prey in the following way: first, he gouges holes in the bark of trees with his beak, and then with his long and sticky tongue fishes out insects from these holes.

Anteater tongue

The long and thin tongue of this animal looks like a worm and is covered with a sticky liquid. In a giant anteater, this organ is even longer than that of a giraffe and reaches 60 cm! With it, the anteater, like a fishing rod, catches ants from the anthill.

Okapi language

Okapi is an artiodactyl living in the territory of the Congo and looks like a giraffe and a zebra at the same time. The okapi's tongue is so big and long that the animal licks its eyes with it!

Snake tongue

With its forked tongue, the snake collects particles from environment and sends them "for analysis" into the oral cavity. This procedure allows her to track down prey and anticipate danger. The tongue is in motion all the time, constantly supplying the snake with information about what is happening around. Hence the slang expression "drive with a sting."

Hummingbird tongue

The tongue of these miniature birds is rolled into a long tube. When the hummingbird lowers its tongue into the neck of the flower to drink nectar, its sides straighten, and before returning to its beak, they are again curled into a tube.

Frog tongue

The frog's tongue is well suited for catching insects. The frog can throw it forward a few centimeters and cover its prey with it, and so that the victim cannot get out, it is also covered with a sticky substance.

Fly tongue

The role of the tongue in the fly is played by the proboscis, which is divided at the end into two tubes. Through them, the insect sucks food.

Tongue of the Malay bear (biruanga)

The Malay bear, which lives in tropical forests South-East Asia, the tongue is long and thin. With its help, this cute bear gets out of the hard-to-reach corners of its favorite termites.