Everyone was startled to learn how this bird kept its tongue longer than its head

The long tongue is too much to store in the brain, which is the ability of the bird we are talking about here. Its tongue can be as long as a third of its body, converted in proportion to humanity, it must be half a meter long.

The "divine" bird we are talking about here is .

is a very interesting bird. They have the practice of tapping (tap) continuously into the trunk, creating small but deep holes. For what? What to do for food!

The tongue of the woodpecker is about 1/3 as long as their body.

However, the search for prey does not stop at typing. Often creating only a deep hole but small and very narrow, ants have to have tricks to "clean up" with the bait in it. And the answer comes from their super-long tongue .

This unusually long tongue is also the most special point of ant typing. The tongue may be twice as long as the outside of the mine, but the sides are narrow and sharp, allowing them to run a whole nest if desired.

It is noted that a woodpecker has a tongue about 10cm long - more than 1/3 of the body length. For ease of comparison, if the ratio corresponds to humans, then your tongue will reach . half a meter.

But the only problem with having such a versatile tongue, is when you don't need it, where to put it? With ants, evolution has made it a really great solution: to touch the skull, wrap it around the brain.

The net is too long, the woodpecker is touching the skull, wrapped around the brain.

Birds will have a cartilage and bone called a hyoid apparatus , which acts as a support for tongue movement. Usually, the bow is only placed on either side of the windpipe, but in the woodpecker, it pulls further, reaching to the top of the skull, even reaching the nostrils.

Thus, the tongue of the woodpecker can be retrieved on both sides of the bow, circling the skull, so that when it is needed, it will stick out, moving like a snake.