Language is a very important part of the body, participating in the chewing and swallowing of food. But sometimes its functions do not end only by this, some animals use their language for mining and it is the only tool for their survival. Depending on the nature of the activity, the language may have different lengths and shape. Editorial website I decided to show the longest languages \u200b\u200bin animals.

Notic bats


The owner of one of the longest languages \u200b\u200bamong the animals has become a nectar bat. The bat reaches in size 5 cm, but its language can be almost twice as much more and reaches 9 cm long. Such a large length of the language is due to the need to extract nectar from a flower with a deep cup.

Woodpecker


In addition to a strong beak, a tool in food production for the feathers also protrudes the language. Through the deep hole in the tree bark, the woodpecker mines food using a long language (length - up to 10 cm). Because of this length, it is in the bird in a special cranial department and ends with a small hook, which he clings to beetles and caterpillars located deep in the crust.

Fancy Australian Echidna


The echidian language is covered with a special substance that is produced in salivary glands, which plays a key role in capturing insects. With the help of your language (about 18 cm), the echidna is capable of producing insects from deep holes.

Snake


Using your tongue, reptiles are oriented in space, allegedly feeling everything around itself. The reptile collects the tongue of the particles of substances in the air and in the ground. Thus, receiving information about the environment and analyzing it, the snake is able to find a trace of the victim, a source of water or partner. Language length in snake reaches 25 cm.

Cow


Cows also have rather big languages \u200b\u200b- about 40 cm. Their long and rough languages \u200b\u200bare adapted to capture and tear herbaceous plants as much as possible. The size of the cow language depends on the breed and age of the animal.

Giraffe


An animal with the greatest growth on our planet. Despite this, he also sometimes has to reach more than his height, in order to get to the juicy tops of the trees. With her tongue, the giraffe is able to light up the branches of trees and shrubs, and the special structure of his mouth does not allow branches and spines to damage.

Chameleon


The language for chameleon is the main tool for producing food. With it, a lizard catches insects in an instant. The process itself is difficult to observe without special equipment, since everything happens in the blink of an eye. The chameleon language sometimes reaches 50 cm. As a rule, the size of the lizard language is proportional to the length of his body.

Ant-eater


A funny animal that does not have teeth, however, not really necessary to him, because the basic diet of the animal consists of termites and ants. An animal language (60 cm) is covered with a very sticky substance, to which insects are perfectly lipped.

Dresser Varan.


An adult part can reach up to 3 m in length, and the weight is up to 70 kg. Lizard has 70 cm tongue. This lizard can even kill a big bull. But it will not be an exciting duel between the two animals. Varana is just enough to apply one bite and wait until the victim falls down. The cunning is that saliva lizards contains many products of rotting, and they, in turn, lead to the infection of the blood of the victim.

Blue whale


Giant in the animal world, the whale length comes to 33 m, and the weight is 150 tons. No wonder the blue whale has the largest language on the planet, its size reaches 3 m. The language for China serves as a kind of piston, thanks to which it filters shrimps entering it in the mouth with water. Thus, blue whale is the owner of the longest language among animals.

Who has the longest language?

Who has the most unusual language
10th place: a full-fledged language first appeared in reptile, namely, lizards and snakes. And he is one of the most difficult in nature, since it is a real chemical laboratory. Snake, touching the subject lying in front of it and taking the "sample" thus, then pulls the tongue and applies its tips to sensitive holes located on the inner surface of the mouth. The very smallest amount of the substance is outside, so that Reptile makes a "microchemical analysis" and took the victim's trail, found a partner in the married period or found the way to a water source.

9th place: Hameleon's tongue is a skillful adobe with sticky cape on the end.

8th place: Some ducks that make food, filtering water and bottom Il, in the edges of the tongue there are fringe, helping to delay the raschkov, insect larvae and fine fish. Hummingbirds turns into the tube and helps to dig floral nectar.

7th place: The tongue of parrots with a rigid corneum is the perfect tool for crushing small nuts: taking the seed into his mouth, the bird presses his tongue, strongly pressing it to the inside of the beak until the shell cracks. The parrots of Loriquets have a language on the end with a brush, with the help of which they collect the juice of crushed fruits crushed.

6th place: Feline language is a real grater that allows them to skip meat from the bones of the victim.

5th place: Rush animals use the language as we have. Cows and giraffes tightly clasp grass beams, leaves or branches in the same way as a man would have done, and then, tearing, send food into the mouth for chewing.

4th place: The game has a sticky fishing rod up to 60 cm long, which it starts into an anthill, then pulls into the mouth with a frequency of 160 times per minute.

3 place: You can use the tongue as a spoon. Most mammals drink, labye, that is, staring the small portions of water to the end of the language. The analysis of frames of accelerated filming showed that the dog at the same time wraps his end up, and the cat, on the contrary, sweeps down.

2 place: people have a chief taster. Each language is 300 - 5,000 flavoring bulbs. They are short-lived, you live only 10 days: new ones grow old on the shift. The root part of the tongue is responsible for the perception of bitter, the front edges of the tongue react on the salty taste, deep edges - on sour, and on the sweet - only its end. Therefore, it is not worth a deeply stuffing the candy or fill with them full of mouth: the pleasure of this will not be greater.

1st place: the most amazing language - Dyatlov. Opening insects in the crust and trunks of trees, woodpecker hoses the hole with a beak, but to get the larvae hidden in the wood, the beak length is not enough. Here, a flexible tongue comes to the aid on the tip: the woodpecker launches it into the woody turn and, fastening the prey, deftly draws it. The language, is no longer, can also be advanced from the oral cavity with a long tape that envelopes the entire skull and is attached to the nostril.

The language of animals wears a few functions. To speak as a whole, it serves as an "assistant" in extracting, chewing and swallowing food, a means of hygiene and care for offspring. In some animals (for example, ping), the language is the only part of the body capable of evaporating moisture, and animals use it as an air conditioner on a hot day. We give examples of animals with incredibly long languages:

Blue Whale, being a record holder in other nominations, (for example, the largest mammal in the world) possesses, besides, and the largest language in the world. At the bottom of the mouth between the lower jaws, its three-meter bag-like, the mass of it is up to 3 tons, and it is half consisted of fat. Whale, capturing a lot of rack or fish, raises the tongue to the fringe of the whale tongue and squeezes them the remnants of water from the mouth. Mounted on the fringe, as on the sieve, small organisms are pushed by the tongue in the throat.

  • Bat.

Scientists have established that nectarium bats have the longest language (relative to the body) from all mammals. For example, long-speaking sheets. These mice languages \u200b\u200bare covered with tiny growth, "hairs" - like the hummingbirds and other animals, which is an important part of the diet of the flowers. These sticking hairs (papillas) act like a rag, picking up more fluid than a smooth surface.

The length of the language of nectaroid bats can reach 8 cm, which is three times the length of their own body.

Its long and rough tongue is adapted to help tear and swallow grass. Depending on the breed and age of the animal, the language can reach 40 cm long.

In addition to the long neck, the giraffe also has an unusually long 45-centimeter language, which, in combination with movable lips, serves for convenient clamping of leaves and shoots and breaking them from trees. Giraffes have a navy blue or even black.

Children has not only strong beak. Dyatlam helps from the trunk of the tree insects insects, the unusually long, far-torn out of the beak language and highly developed salivary glands, allowing to fix it to the language. Dyatlas feed insects and their larvae, partly seeds. The length of the dyatla language can reach 10 cm.

The generic name of the Echidna translated from Greek means "Fast Language". The muzzle is elongated in a narrow "beak" with a length of 75 mm, straight or slightly curved. It is an adaptation to the search for mining in narrow creams and badges, from where the echidna takes it with his long sticky language. Its language is able to stick out from the mouth by 18 cm (its full length reaches 25 cm). It is covered with mucus, to which ants and termites adhere. The proloning of the language is ensured by the reduction of circular muscles, which change its shape and push it forward, and two chores and the lifting muscles, which are attached to the root of the tongue and the lower jaw. The tidy tongue becomes harsh due to the rapid flow of blood. Its retracting is provided by two longitudinal muscles. Language is able to move at high speed - up to 100 movements per minute.

These amazing reptiles possess not only a long body, but also in a long tongue. The length of the tongue in some types of snakes can reach 25 cm. The language for the snake is the most important sense body, combined with a pair of the Jacobson, which is a subtle chemical analyzer and has two outlet holes on the top nos. The snake language is supervised through the semicircular cutting of the upper jaw, a few seconds trembles in the air, slightly touching the twisted tips of nearby objects, and then draws inside. Here, the ends of the tongue are shoved into the holes of the Jacobson organ, and the snake receives information about meager quantities ("traces") of substances in the air and on the substrate. Thus, alternately proving and removing the language, the snake quickly and confidently moves along the trail of prey, finds the victim, partner or source of water.

The main food of these animals is ants and termites. The amusements easily tear their asylums with their powerful claws, pronounce long and sticky tongue, draw it together with the puffed insects and finally scrape them with special ornaments, located on the inside of the cheeks and in the sky. Language they work very quickly, for example, a gigantic ant gives up its 60-centimeter tongue at a speed of 160 times per minute.

Language is a body that is almost all vertebrates, and they can do completely different things. Here are the 10 most unusual languages \u200b\u200bin the animal world.

Language Sinigo Whale, or blue Whale (Lat. Balaenoptera Musculus.)
This organ weighs up to three tons, but copies come across two times harder. This is definitely the biggest language in the world of animals. And while its relative size is very small in comparison with the size and mass of whale, which reaches 70 tons. By language, this grand animal enjoys like a bucket, scratching water and filtering from it for himself food (plankton). By the way, fifty people can fit in the language of blue whale!

The most famous language in the animal world is a language. Chameleon has the longest language - some individuals can reach the length of the body along with the tail. In addition, this is a very fast language, 40 milliseconds are spent on the "shot", to "Recharging" - half a second. The chameleon language is a long tube with a sticky ball at the end consisting of a special secret, which is allocated by special glands. In the folded state, the tongue is folded around a special bone in the Hameleon mouth, which is called Processus Entoglossus. For the shot, the chameleon should relax the longitudinal muscles, holding the tongue and acting like a spring. Some chameleons can be up to 70 cm long, and can catch not only insects, but even small birds and small rodents.

Fire Salamander.

The longest language relative to the length of the body is small salamander, the size is only 6 cm long. Her tongue reaches 7 centimeters! In general, Salamandras are amazing creatures. In addition to the long language, they have some more interesting features. For example, some of their species are not afraid of direct exposure to open fire for several seconds. At the same time, their skin begins to highlight a special substance in large quantities, which protects the animal from high temperature, allowing the ability to just escape. So legends about non-combustible lizards have a basis.

Giant language pangolinawith the length of the body, 1 meter is up to 80 cm long. But this is not his main feature. His uniqueness is that the muscles leading the language in motion are unusually developed and pass along the whole body, attaching to the bone almost near the tail. Such a feature gives an animal the ability to manage with a large number of termites, which he loves very much (to eat)

Language giraffeit is a length of more than half a meter, being the strongest and long among the ungulates. Language and tongue of giraffe are so developed and rude that it can easily be controlled with the striking plants, like acacia. Have you ever tried to ship or lease acacia? The same and the giraff is spitting.

In many languages \u200b\u200bof the world there is an expression "language without bones". We know that there are really no bones in the language. But there are animals that have in the language of the bone, oddly enough. For example, this is a family of familySteoglossiformes. In general, their name in Latin also means "Kostyy Language". The most significant representatives of this family - giant Arapaima which are found in Amazon. The length of these kalems is up to 4 and a half meters, and the weight is up to 200 kilograms.

Round-up batsit is found in the mountains of Ecuador. Its size is the same. As with the ordinary field mouse, but the language has a length of 9 centimeters. For some reason, such mice are considered vampires, although they feed onto floral nectar, like hummingbirds. The relative size of the language of this mouse is only inferior to chameleon indicators, and holds the championship among all mammals. In the language of this bat, there are many hairs that absorb nectar and transfer pollen from the tree to the tree.

W. mollusksthere is also a similarity of the language, it is called Radules (grater). In the language of the ordinary garden snail there are about 15 thousand teeth. Scary animal!


At the tip of the tongue cayman Turtlethere is a process, it looks like a big red worm, with the help of which it lures prey. For this, the turtle falls on the bottom, opens his mouth and begins to wave with his tongue-bait. The fish attracted by this swims the turtle right in the mouth, and nothing remains to her, except for it to close and eat a poor fellow.

And finally, some spikes. There is such a bird - flamingo.. So it has a special language. Flamingo hunt for shallow water, lowering his head into the water, mahind a tongue and shaking his head, acting as a pump, driving into the beak of algae and small crustaceans. But the most interesting thing in all this process is that the language in this process behaves like penis. It becomes more thanks to special tissues from which it consists. After a few seconds of such a "fishing", the language becomes solid and more effectively drives water into the center of the beak, where it is filtered and is displayed on its sides. Here is such a mysterious bird - Flamingo. No one else in the world of animals does not have such a feature - a variable language hardness in large limits.

Some animals boast the most big teeth, others - tails, and some are simply strikingly long languages.

Bat

The owner of the longest language, in the whole 8 cm! It turned out to be a bat of Anoura Fistulata. It would seem, not much, and if we compare this size with the length of its entire body, which does not exceed 6 cm, then it turns out quite impressive. It needs such a long language to get the nectar of the 8 centimeter tropical flower. By the way, in the oral cavity, the language does not fit, so it defines a special place in the chest.

Woodpecker

Everyone knows that the woodpecker knocks on the tree to break the bug and get small bugs or larva from under it, but he is not enough with a beak at all, but a length of 10 centimeters long. At the tip of his tongue there are special hooks, which Pernation captures food and drags it into her mouth. But this is not all, think the tongue hides in the mouth? It was not there, it was wound around the skull and attached to the root to the nostril.

Echidna

The muzzle of this creation ends with an elongated nose and mouth, nothing unusual, but in the mouth there is a long thin tongue, covered with liphone liquid, which the salivary glands produce, it helps the echidon to collect insects. The length of a part of the language that can go out - 18 cm and slightly less hidden in the mouth.

Giraffe

It turns out that the Giraffe is not only the longest neck, and a very long, dexterous language is about 45 cm. It is thanks to him that the giraffe can easily break off the leaves with spiny trees.

Chameleon

This lizard simply could not fail to get into the list along with her 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 absolutely devoid of teeth, but they are not very necessary for them. They feed on termites and ants that get out of shelter with adhesive long tongue. For example, at a gigantic amussed, it reaches 60 cm long, and the frequency of movements can reach up to 160 times in a minute.

Dresser Varan.

The largest lizard in the world whose length sometimes exceeds 3 meters, has a corresponding language about 70 cm long. Varana is predatory reptiles and to the same poisonous. Binding the sacrifice, they can pursue it from several hours to several days, waiting for it until it fell from poison.