Sorry, my tongue's not prehensile.

This is credited to a Nashville hotel. Via.

"Please use tongues to pick up cookies, not hands."

Hey, want to see a lorikeet's tongue?

Too late! (Via.)

Fun Fact of the Day

Scientists call catfish "swimming tongues" because they have more than 250,000 taste buds located all over their bodies.


Yay.

Yes, chameleons have long tongues.

How else are you gonna catch a grasshopper? (Via.)

Bad dog!

Put it away! Put it away! (via)

Nose-cleaning time!

By the Jordan Collective.

A giraffe can have a tongue that's 18 inches long. Not only is that handy for pulling leaves off high branches, but the giraffe also uses it to clean its nostrils out with.

Hey, it's important to eat your greens!

Now THAT'S a big tongue!

Milo is a Saint Bernard. His breed is bred to live in the cold, snowy Alps.

So why, oh why, did Milo's owner drag him to Thailand? Poor guy.

Story and photos at the Daily Mail.

But I don't WANT a bat to lick my arm.

Too late!

From here.

"Who wants the peanut butter next?"

So much for THAT jar.

But it is sort of incredible how long that corgi's tongue is!

Hey, I wonder what kind of tongue other animals have? Like maybe a sloth?

Now I'm sorry I asked.

Sloth from the Telegraph.

Now THAT'S a long tongue!

Baby anteaters tend to have them! Photo by May Woon, as seen at ZooBorns.

The Gross Guessing Game!

Below are two photos of the human body taken with electron microscopes. See if you can guess what they are!

Item One

Yes, you have bamboo growing out of you.

Item Two

Oh, and alien caterpillars have a home on you.

Pencils down! What do you think, huh? Huh? Okay the first one is clearly some sort of hair. And the second photo shows germs. Ready for the amazing answers?

Item One: Eyelashes!
Item Two: Tongue bacteria!

Photos from here.

This is Puggy. This is his tongue.

Puggy's tongue is 4.5 inches long. That means he can lick your face and catch flies at the same time! It also means that the Pekingese is in the 2011 Guinness World Records for (you guessed it!) having the Longest Tongue of Any Dog.

Photo from the Telegraph.