Toucan tounge. 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. 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. A structural complex probably unique to toucans involves the modification of several tail vertebrae.
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. The toucan tongue is long almost the full stretch of their roughly 7 inch long beak. Both toucans and woodpeckers have a tongue that is long narrow and feather like.
Httpjmpripleytoucan toucans posses a very unique tongue which looks like a li. Toco toucans live in small flocks of about six. 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.
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