The new mammalian champ for sticking out its tongue is a small bat from the Andes.
LONG DRINK. A tube-lipped nectar bat from Ecuador sticks out its tongue to drink from a glass cylinder. Between sips, the lower part of the tongue will retract into a sheath that runs from the back of the bat’s mouth down into its chest (inset diagram) M.
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