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Chameleon Tongue in Slow Motion - Behind the Scenes of Smarter Every Day 180

2017-11-06

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Read these papers on the Chameleon Tongue:

THE MECHANISM OF TONGUE PROJECTION IN CHAMELEONS

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/168/1/1.full.pdf

Power at the tip of the tongue:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ulrike_Mueller4/publication/40125555_Editorial_Power_at_the_tip_of_the_tongue/links/545aa20a0cf2c16efbbbc2d3.pdf

Evidence for an elastic projection mechanism in the chameleon tongue

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691657/pdf/15209111.pdf

Functional implications of supercontracting muscle in the chameleon tongue retractors

http://anthonyherrel.fr/publications/Herrel%20et%20al%202001%20J%20Exp%20Biol.pdf

The Mechanism of Projection of the Chameleon’s Tongue

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8364/4bbaa6915855a084d52a857a86004e9af3b2.pdf

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