alt.hn

1/13/2025 at 5:00:52 AM

Let's talk about bird tongues (2014)

https://toughlittlebirds.com/2014/11/20/lets-talk-about-bird-tongues/

by quuxplusone

1/17/2025 at 7:24:46 AM

Wow... geese and ducks filter food like baleen whales

by veunes

1/16/2025 at 8:41:32 PM

Hummingbirds and woodpeckers... why

by ge96

1/17/2025 at 3:05:58 AM

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.

by fiforpg

1/17/2025 at 4:52:48 AM

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

by zonkerdonker

1/17/2025 at 7:21:03 AM

It seems straight out of science fiction

by veunes