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Let's talk about bird tongues (2014) (toughlittlebirds.com)
Optimal_Persona 11 hours ago [-]
Here's some nice relaxing mood music as background for the discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVb2tnFN5AA
veunes 23 hours ago [-]
Wow... geese and ducks filter food like baleen whales
ge96 1 days ago [-]
Hummingbirds and woodpeckers... why
fiforpg 1 days ago [-]
Yeah, the best part is that a woodpecker's tongue wraps all the way around the back of his head and attaches in the right nostril. The head effectively serves as a spool for the tongue. Awesome technology.
zonkerdonker 1 days ago [-]
Not only that, but it the way it wraps around their skull acts like a shock dampener for their brain when they peck. Their skulls experience something like 1200g during a peck, humans get a serious concussion around 60g. Evolution is wild
veunes 24 hours ago [-]
It seems straight out of science fiction
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