| Re: Tongues and stuff
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Any idea what the two black rings are half way up the tongue?
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I think they are backward pointing 'teeth'. (You can just see that the right hand one stands proud) No idea of purpose, though I assume something to do with helping grip/swallow food (useful if you dont have teeth in your jaw and what you eat is slippery. I saw, some years ago, a photograph of a bird (Starling I think) that had got itself trapped on some kind of thread that had got looped behind these 'teeth'.
henrya |