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How fast is a frog's tongue?

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The top speed is surprisingly unimpressive. The overall effect is pretty fast, because the acceleration is high and the distance is small. read more

If a frog tongue is three inches long (which would be a pretty long tongue) then the tip covers a distance of about 6 inches in 15/100 seconds, which wolfram/alpha [1] tells me is just 2.3 mph -- a leisurely walking pace. read more

Fast-forward 165 years, when biomechanics researchers Kleinteich and Gorb were the first to measure tongue forces in the horned frog Ceratophrys cranwelli. They found in 2014 that frog adhesion forces can reach up to 1.4 times the body weight. That means the sticky frog tongue is strong enough to lift nearly twice its own weight. read more

Frog’s tongues are attached to the front of their mouths rather than at the back like humans. When a frog catches an insect it throws its sticky tongue out of it’s mouth and wraps it around its prey. read more

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