When competition for resources is fierce, being able to reach food that other animals cannot get to is a bonus. Possessing a foot-long tongue is a huge advantage and this is where the okapi excels. In ...

Humans mostly use their tongue for tasting the flavour of foods and speaking. But when it comes to the animals, tongues become tools for hunting, grooming and surviving and so on. There are animals ...

One of the longest tongues in the animal kingdom is that of the giant anteater, reaching up to 2 feet. Its tongue is covered with sticky saliva, hence allowing it to grasp thousands of ants and ...