Stick Your Tongue Out Day

Interesting facts about tongues:

• A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
• A pig's tongue contains 15 000 taste buds. The human tongue has 9000 taste buds.
• The anteater's tongue can stretch to the height of a two-year old child.
• The archerfish uses its tongue like a squirt gun to shoot down its prey.
• The gecko swipes its tongue back and forth like windshield wipers to clean its eyes.
• A blue whale's tongue is the same size and weight as a full-grown African elephant.
• The emperor moth starts life with a large tongue, but the time it has reached maturity, its tongue has shrunk away to nothing. Unable to feed, the moth eventually dies of starvation.

Worth waiting for, wasn't it?

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