Toucan tongue. A toucans tongue is long up to 1415 cm or 6 inches narrow grey and singularly frayed on each side adding to its sensitivity as a tasting organ. The toco toucans tongue is long and featherlike and is used to grab food like fruit insects and small reptiles and toss it down the birds throat. Toco toucans live in small flocks of about six.
The main length of the tongue is thin grey white in color and frayed along the edges almost having the appearance of a feathered fishing line i do realize that feathered fishing line does not exist but if it did this is exactly what it would look like. Httpjmpripleytoucan toucans posses a very unique tongue which looks like a li. This species is the largest toucan and the largest representative of the order piciformes.
4 the total length of the species is 5565 cm 21 1 2 25 1 2 in. The tongue is nearly as long as the bill and very flat. Because the bill is so light a toco toucan can use it to reach fruit on branches that are too small to support their weight.
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