To: Ichneumon
The woodpecker's tongue goes over its skull. Explain to me how an intermediate stage, where the tip of the tongue reaches backwards to the back of the head, offers a survival advantage. In these cases, the tongue could not even be used.
74 posted on
12/22/2003 8:07:52 AM PST by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: Aquinasfan
Dumby. The anchor point of the tongue is the thing that moved to the back of the skull (as the illustrations provided to you show).
90 posted on
12/22/2003 10:22:47 AM PST by
Junior
(To sweep, perchance to clean... Aye, there's the scrub.)
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