Contrary to popular belief, it's not possible for you to swallow your own tongue.
Frogs are well known for capturing their prey with, but therein lies the problem their unusual anatomy had to solve: how to then pry the food from that clingy whip to send it down their guts.
From capture to swallowing, the whole process takes under two seconds, but there are a whole series of events happening within the toad during this short timeframe. The team attached tiny metallic beads to the toad's tongue so they could track the muscle's movements in the x-ray footage. As shown in the video below, the orange marker at the tip of its tongue lashes out to snag an insect, then snaps back into the toad's mouth. But it doesn't stop there, continuing down the throat a whole 4.5 centimeters , until it almost touches the toad's heart.
frameborder="0″ allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>The mean distance that the tongue stretches during retraction equals or exceeds the mean distance that it stretches during protrusion," the researchersHere near their heart, the"The hyoid shoots up and presses the tongue against the roof of the mouth, after which it moves forward, essentially scraping the food off into the...
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