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What could be cuter than an animal sticking out its tiny tongue? Or, even a not-so-tiny one - see, in the animal world, tongues come in different shapes, sizes and textures. They can serve a different function depending on an animal - feeding, grooming, or even gathering information.

A giraffe, for example, cleans its ears using a 20-inch long tongue. But, if you think that's the biggest tongue on the planet, you're wrong. The blue whale, being the largest mammal in the world, boasts a tongue that weighs more than an Asian elephant - 2.7 tones. A whale uses its tongue to push out water from its mouth when sifting for krill.

Still, the prize for the longest tongue in relation to the body size goes to the chameleon. This tiny fellow can stretch its tongue up to 1.5 times to its body length when trying to reach the sweet nectar of flowers.

What's your favourite animal tongue?

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Michel M. Prins
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don't know if I'd rather pet it for an hour or want to carefully boop its nose. I'll choose both

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hedgehog to baby rabbit..."You whipper snapper! Blowing a raspberry at me! It wasn't like this in MY day let me tell you!"

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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I didn't realize it was a .gif at first and I was like, "MY EYES ARE HAVING A SPASM oh wait..." 😂😂😂

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Amanda Panda
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have a nearly identical picture of my cat (they even look just alike) when I made a smoothie and got up to use the restroom, and came back, and his face was in it, and looked EXACTLY like this!

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Mindy Keys
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5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

AWWWW, sweet baby weez, Is this a Beano? i wanna kiss that mug! upvote x 100

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Nancy Arnold
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6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And they called it bunny love Oh I guess they'll never know How a young heart really feels And why I love her so ❤

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