The unbelievable thing about the cat's tongue made many people terrified

The thorns on the cat's tongue can shave off the meat sticking to the prey's bones. The beasts of the Big Cat have taken advantage of this to enjoy eating the easiest way.

To survive, the animals' bodies have a lot of bizarre evolution. Typically, like cats, many cat owners know that cats use their tongue to groom their fur.

But few people know that the cat tongue has dense soft spines, which can be said to be scary .

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Close up of thorns on cat's tongue.

According to the study, the tip of the cat's tongue and most of the big cat animals such as tigers, lions, jaguars . have tongue or papillae that have mechanical effects but do not feel the taste, evenly distributed in the upper surface of the tongue.

These tongue spines appear to be keratinized. After a long time, tongue spines may have some kind of bacteria, leftovers, saliva . forming a certain thickness.

These tongue spikes can shave off the meat sticking to the prey's bones. The beasts of the Big Cat have taken advantage of this to enjoy eating the easiest way.

Besides, these tongue spines are also controlled by the muscles on the tongue, when licking the hair or taking care of the child, these tongue thorns will be controlled so as not to cause danger, while also increasing feelings.

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When there is no intention of attacking, harming people, their tongue is completely harmless.

At this point, many people will wonder, when cats or domesticated beasts lick at humans, whether the skin is scratched or not. In fact, there are some people who think that just licking them, big cats can cause people to scratch the bleeding skin.

However, no one has tried that, because this can only happen when these beasts have a hostile relationship with humans, in a state of hunting, eating and drinking.

On the contrary, when there is no intention of attacking, harming people, their tongue is completely harmless. This is proved by tiger breeders. They were all licked by the tigers but were not injured.