Imagine having a tongue that’s more than twice as long as your body. Now imagine being able to shoot your tongue out all the way to grab an object on the other side of the room. That’s how these tiny chameleons hunt, as you can see on this high-speed video, which has been slowed down to 1/50 of the normal speed. By studying these small species—some of which can fit on your thumb—researchers have found that their tongues can stretch farther and faster than even those of larger chameleons. At zero to 60 mph in 1/100 of a second, their tongues accelerate the fastest and are the most powerful of any reptiles, birds, and mammals. It’s believed the super burst of energy is a trade-off for the energy that would otherwise be used in moving their tiny bodies toward their prey.
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Tiny Chameleons’ Tongues Pack Strongest Punch (High-Speed Footage) | National Geographic
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ఊసరవెల్లి నాలుక తో ఈగ కంటే వేగంగా కదలి చంపేస్తాయి.
What would be really weird if explorers encountered an undiscovered mammal that could stretch out its tongue like a frog or a chameleon.
What would be really weird if explorers encountered an undiscovered mammal that could stretch out its tongue like a frog or a chameleon.
To be honest a chameleon's tongue is longer than a frogs tongue because of the fact that the chameleon don't have to walk sometimes to get the bug it can use its tongue to stretch it out and go get the bug with its tongue that's so cool
animals are just pokemon in real life
Qwetryuirutuit
Imagine this good promotion of a tiny lesbuan reptile
My gecko don’t have a tongue like that how come?
So graceful…. lmao
it looks like arachnet's web power like i watched slugterra wildbrain and i watched slugs in the wild
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Rive this sugir lot🍀🍀🐸🐸🐸🐸😰😰
My favorite was when Cleos (my old chameleon) tongue would bend on the way back, sometimes it looks super derpy like they did it wrong 😂
who gave them aimbot
Go go power rangers??
What they don't mention is the chameleon also needs this loud badass rock music to really get in the right mindset to throw his tongue this far.
lmao that tongue has a recoil 😀
Fatality!
Get in my belly
Bat looking cameleon 😬
Did I just heard the Power Rangers song in this video?
I find this music annoying.
That thing has stolen a lot of my antidotes
Chameleon get target
Gamers nice aim dude
I wonder if they ever bite there tongue on accident
how secreet tongue
ask your p*nis for answered
FYI: For the “over 2 times body length” part, it’s three times(1 and a half two times).
The animal version of a harpoon
Кто не русский тот баран
Aren't the bone tongue Sharp?
Imagine a crocodile wth a tongue like this
average acceleration of 2.6 kilometres per second squared lol
They have a life cycle. Compound walls are good to be exposed.
Obviously they are an asset and some find them cute. It is just perception guys. Chill.
me: i want to see slow motion tongue
natgeo: let's put words on the tongue when it moves so you can't see it
J
Awesome
A womans dream.
"GET OVER HERE!!"
id be terrified to bite my own tongue