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2007-05-11 22:59:44 · 8 answers · asked by kendeedwn1974 1 in Science & Mathematics Zoology

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Relative to body size, it's a species of bat; Anoura fistulata.

National Geographic
December 6, 2006—It's enough to give Gene Simmons (inset) appendage envy. Despite a '70s rock rumor, the Kiss bassist did not have his tongue surgically replaced with a cow's. But could Anoura fistulata tempt him to go batty?

A. fistulata (shown lapping sugar water from a tube(picture under link supplied)) has the longest tongue, relative to body length, of any mammal—and now scientists think they know why.

"This bat was just discovered last year, and now we've observed a very unique relationship with a local flower," said Nathan Muchhala, a University of Miami Ph.D. student whose team's findings are to be published tomorrow in the journal Nature.

Found in an Andean cloud forest in Ecuador, A. fistulata (aka the tube-lipped nectar bat) evolved mutually with an extremely long, bell-shaped flower, the team says. In fact, armed with a tongue that retracts into the bat's rib cage, A. fistulata is now the only animal that can pollinate the flower.

—Ted Chamberlain

2007-05-11 23:27:42 · answer #1 · answered by Cetacea 6 · 0 0

probably the biggest lizard like the Komodo dragon
although the ant eaters tongue is about a half a meter long

2007-05-12 14:19:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Giraffe

2016-02-15 13:37:44 · answer #3 · answered by sepia 7 · 0 0

Land animals - giraffe.
Sea I think it should be whale.

Relative to body I think it is chemelion - about 2.5 times its body length.

2007-05-12 01:24:13 · answer #4 · answered by dipakrashmi 4 · 0 0

that would be the anteaters in which they're tongues can reach out a few meters.

2007-05-12 15:41:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

GIRAFFE. http://www.zoo.com.sg/spotlight/african_giraffe.htm.

2007-05-11 23:14:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

gene simmons

2007-05-12 01:59:54 · answer #7 · answered by si_kleeg 3 · 0 0

hummingbird

2015-03-24 03:40:14 · answer #8 · answered by matt 1 · 0 0

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