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The Amazing Versatility of Animal Tongues

Some animals put us to shame with their tongues and what they can do with them. No teenaged, first French kiss nerves for any of the creatures featured here. The muscle on the floor of our mouths used to manipulate food for chewing and swallowing is also of course the primary organ of taste. Yet while our animal counterparts cannot use their tongues for its other main function in humans – speech – many creatures put them to other uses that could easily leave you tongue-tied.

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The Life and Times of the Baby Aardvark

The aardvark is an animal only found in sub-Saharan Africa. Its strange looks can probably be attributed to the fact that it is a living fossil – yes, the aardvark’s chromosomes reflect much of life before modern taxonomy. Let’s see how life begins for little aardvarks because guess what, as placentals, they are more closely related to us humans than marsupials. Ready for pics that’ll make you go cuuuuuute?

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