Well, frogs have a trick up their sleeve: an ultra-fast tongue. Their tongue is made of ... slathering the fly with a super sticky saliva, trapping it in place like glue. This fly is going nowhere.
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The Island Packet on MSN‘Large’-eyed creature with ‘heart shaped’ tongue found in swamp. It’s a new speciesBrazilian backland casque-headed tree frogs are “slender,” reaching just over 2 inches in length, the study said. Their skulls have “small” bony protrusions, referred to as casques.
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Hosted on MSNWhatever Happened To Budweiser's Beloved Frogs?Budweiser ran a highly successful ad campaign centered around three frogs in a swamp. Whatever happened to those cute little ...
Turns out, frog spit has peculiar physical properties ... that spit goes from sticky to watery. That way, when the tongue makes contact, all of its watery saliva flows over and on the insect.
Well, frogs have a trick up their sleeve: an ultra-fast tongue. Their tongue is made of ... slathering the fly with a super sticky saliva, trapping it in place like glue. This fly is going nowhere.
The frogs then lunge toward the prey and capture it with a sticky tongue. They have also been reported to eat juvenile frogs of other species. THREATS: The destruction and degradation of wetlands ...
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