The tongue is a fleshy muscular organ in the mouth of most vertebrates that is usually attached to the floor of the mouth. It has a thick root attached to a u shaped bone (the hyoid) behind.
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
The tongue is covered with mucous membrane containing many nerves and also the taste buds, which distinguish salt, sweet, sour and bitter.
The human tongue has more than 10,000 taste buds that replace themselves every 10 days.
The tongue direct foods to the teeth, and presses food and drink back into the throat in the act of swallowing.
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HUMAN TONGUE
Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end.
The tongue is the strongest muscle in the human body.
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
The tongue is covered with mucous membrane containing many nerves and also the taste buds, which distinguish salt, sweet, sour and bitter.
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| Taste receptors are present on the human tongue in papillae. By Saurabh R. Patil |
The human tongue has more than 10,000 taste buds that replace themselves every 10 days.
The tongue direct foods to the teeth, and presses food and drink back into the throat in the act of swallowing.
Top ice cream tasters take out tongue insurance. John Harrison of US firm Dreyer's insured his for $1 million.
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In humans, the tongue plays a vital role in speech.
Native German and Russian speaker's tongues naturally rest on the bottom of their mouths while English speakers tongues rest on the top.
Tibetans say hello by sticking their tongues out at each other.
Canadian Kunal Jain holds the record for the loudest tongue click, generating a sound level reading of 114.2 decibels — more than the average lawnmower (90db) and car horn (110 db).
Your tongue is germ free only if it is pink. If your tongue is white, there is a thin film of bacteria on it.
The tongue is actually the fastest healing part of the human body.
The widest male human tongue in the world belongs to American Byron Schlenker, at a width of 3.37in (8.57cm) wide. The trait runs in the family; his daughter Byron Schlenker holds the female record at 2.89in (7.33cm) wide.
ANIMAL TONGUES
In other animals the tongue may be important for other things apart from eating and communication such as lapping up water, or for grooming.
Some animals have tongues that are specially adapted for catching prey. A chameleon's tongue, for instance, is nearly twice as long as its body. To grab prey the tongue shoots out of its mouth at more than 26 body lengths per second—13.4 miles (21.6 kilometers) an hour.
Snakes have no ears so they flick their tongues in and out to pick up sound waves.
As a dog increases its exercise the tongue will increase in size due to greater blood flow. The tongue hangs out of the dog's mouth and the moisture on the tongue will work to cool the bloodflow.
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Giraffe tongues average around 20 inches in length. They can clean their ears with their very long tongue.
A tiger's tongue is rough enough to lick the paint off of a building.
Source Daily Mail
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