Frog tongue in super slo-mo action

Earth ^ | 4 Feb 2017 | Eleanor Imster

[DUMBGRUNT]

A frog uses its whip-like tongue to snag its prey faster than a human can blink, hitting it with a force five times greater than gravity. That’s according to researchers, who filmed frogs eating crickets in super-slow motion to help understand the physics of the tongue. They said that the frog’s tongue – which is 10 times softer than a human’s – stretches and stores energy much like a spring.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Frog snags cricket with its ‘bungee cord’ tongue. Watch it in super slo-mo and find out why it works so well.

[fivecatsandadog]

Just for you......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6uLfermPU

[Doogle]

...dated a girl who had a tongue like that....problem was she liked crickets too

[null and void]

Named Amber, worked at the pet store on Blossom Hill and Snell?

[Doogle]

You knew her too?

[Az Joe]

I bet his frog girlfriend is happy.

[terycarl]

Looked to me like the bug was on a string ....., what’s with that, was this in a Lab??

[DUMBGRUNT]

That larks vomit, must be a very expensive ingredient?

[DUMBGRUNT]

“Looked to me like the bug was on a string ....., what’s with that, was this in a Lab??”

One has to be very careful, not to step on any environmental rules or animal rights!

Better for all concerned to fake everything.

[null and void]

Yep.

[crazy scenario]

" ...dated a girl who had a tongue like that....problem was she liked crickets too"

ditto for me, except problem was she HAD crickets.