Interesting article on those incredible tongues

[maryanne27]

I was just reading this about the speed and mechanism of chameleon tongues. Really neat stuff!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/05/0519_040519_tvchameleons.html

 

[maryanne27]

It is kind of old but still really cool!

 

[MSMorgan]

Very good read. Thank you for posting it.

 

[Virgil1972]

That was a cool article. I remember watching a tv show, I think it was about wildlife in Madagascar, and they were talking about the Chams there. They said that a Chams tongue shots out at around 40 G's of force. I thought that was pretty cool.

 

[Chris Anderson]

They can actually project their tongue at higher G's than that. They've now been recorded achieving up to 264 G! Here's a more recent press release on tongue projection performance: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/s...the-power-of-a-smaller-chameleons-tongue.html

Chris

 

[maryanne27]

They can actually project their tongue at higher G's than that. They've now been recorded achieving up to 264 G! Here's a more recent press release on tongue projection performance: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/s...the-power-of-a-smaller-chameleons-tongue.html

Chris

That's just awesome. And that video is pretty great! I just love how accurate they can be with their head shots at such distances.