Video: Chameleon Fast Sticky Catapult Tongue in Slow Motion
Posted on March 22, 2013
>Here is a video of a chameleon's long sticky tongue in slow motion. The chameleon tongue travels at 50 feet per second.
A National Geographic article says chameleon's have "biological catapults" that store energy and enable it to rapidly fire its tongue at insects. The "catapults" involve elastic collagen tissue wrapped around the tongue bone and and an accelerator muscle.
The clip is from One Life, a BBC Earth nature documentary narrated by James Bond star Daniel Craig. In the clip, Craig says "delicious" after several scenes of chameleon's snatching insects.
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