What Makes This Frog's Tongue So Fast AND Sticky? | Deep Look
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- How are frogs and toads so amazing at catching bugs? They smack ’em with a supersoft tongue covered in special spit, which flows into every nook and cranny of their target. Then, in less than a second, that spit transforms into a tacky glue, yanking the meal back into the toad’s maw.
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Toads nab their prey 5 times faster than the blink of an eye. How do they do it? They pop their lower jaw open, and launch their supersoft tongue at their meal, enveloping their prey. When their unique saliva hits prey at a high speed, it thins out dramatically, pouring into every nook and cranny the tongue touches. Then it becomes sticky again, drawing that meal down the hatch.
---+ How does a toad get insects OFF its tongue?
Scientists at the University of Florida put tiny metal markers on cane toads’ tongues and filmed X-ray footage of them eating to see where that tongue went after the toad mouth closed. They found that the toad basically swallows its own tongue in order to scrape off its prey with a rigid piece of cartilage called a hyoid. See more images from their work here:
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---+ How does a toad catch prey?
It’s a combo of that super-soft tongue that helps envelop prey … and some very special spit. A toad’s saliva starts off thick and sticky. but when the saliva hits prey at a high speed, it thins out dramatically, pouring into every nook and cranny the tongue touches.
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So frog saliva is essentially a non-Newtonian fluid, fascinating 😊
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shear-thinning specifically, it sounds like.
Like ketchup or shampoo, opposite of oobleck.
Actually is it not the opposite of a Newtonian fluid?
@@Inaxces did you forget the non part of non-Newtonian or did you accidentally read past the non part in my comment? :)
I wonder if they can feel the bugs moving inside their stomach at first. 😳
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I was hoping to see the toad spit out the legs.
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I clicked on this video faster than that toad nabbed that cricket
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Last 5 seconds with the caterpillar was the best part! 😮
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...like a toad's tongue!
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Oh, Laura, I'm sure you know telling a toad to pick a smaller meal is a fool's errand. Was quite a surprise to see that one give up on the caterpillar, though!
The caterpillar had a huge stinger on the end of it 😵
Frogs are kinda cute lol
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You go to toad college?
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When I was a kid I found a big toad on stairs, so I picked it up and put it in to nearby bushes. I don't want the toad being harmed
Excellent analysis as usual! Shape & length of the tongue is one thing, sticky substance (saliva) is a crucial element. So far, that's fine. If so effectively sticky, how to detach a prey is an immediate question to be answered! Take a simple look at the footage! Done!
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2:09, is it just me or does the toad look like it's flipping you off with both their feet?
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I thought toads and frogs were considered separate before rather than a toad is a kind of frog
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The last scene is the bite of 87
really good details!
Wow! I just shared this video with my great aunt. She made a grossed out face when she saw it swallows its tongue, but she finds it very interesting, lol! 😆
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The frog princess. Passionate kisses are hers!
It's indeed a nice, useful, say, magic hand with a flex glue-like coating. That's the key, isn't it? Instead of waiting for a prey coming pretty close, it's a handy mechanism evolution elaborated for those cute creatures. Every part of body could be a target of transformation!
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That is the most toad looking toad I have ever seen
I wonder if frogs ever accidentally bite their own tongues.
Nope they dont have teeth . Except african bull frog
I can already hear the Yoshi Tongue Sound whenever a Toad stretches it's Tongue.
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😵 when the toad licks you...
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Their faces look so proud when they nab some prey! (Apart from that one at the end 😂)
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This past weekend I actually visited a pond full of mating toads. First time me witnessing this
A whole lotta amplexus going on, I'm sure.
Love the final part, its so funny
Even when it's such a mundane animal, I learn something new. Fantastic!
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I don’t understand how you call frogs mundane. They’re fascinating with many amazing facts.
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Oh my what happened to the caterpillar in the last 10 seconds of the video? 😮
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Short but good, but not enough to complete my dinner though
That’s hilarious, how the road at the end backed away after he spit out the caterpillar
Viscoso, pero delicioso!
Are there applications of toad spit in baking?
Toad tongues are terrifically talented!
Agree 100%
Which one is the fastest Toad or chameleon?..
And what is the difference between them?
Chameleons have bones in their tongues!
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But all things considered, best science channel.
great video!
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You are constantly being filmed yet you have all this food coming right at you. I say that toad's having a great deal!
What I find fascinating is that, while cartoons use chameleon-like tongues, a Toad's tongue actually unravels like a duvet - or rather a red-carpet to doom.
Yes, it flips out when the jaw snaps open.
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Very Nice
slay-liva
So that sticky tongue gets into contact with the ground. Does it pick up grit and cruft? Does the toad have a way of not getting sick?
I feel like my hyoid is structurally useful, but just doesn't have as much value as a tool.
this is now my spirit animal
goofy ahh todds
100% success rate
The snail is just like to doll in squid game game 1, and the insects are basically the players
Well, looks like Jiminy Cricket meets his fate at the hands of Science, Nature, and one hungry Toad.
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Ha, good eye!
@@KQEDDeepLook and frogs use their eyes to swallow... (I couldn't think of a good pun lol)
the insects look so helpless it's funny
Does the cricket stay alive in the frogs stomach until it’s digested by the stomach fluids?
Very entertaining and descriptive 😅
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I really needed to see a toad swallow a caterpillar and hork it back up. Thank you, my life is complete now.
I've always wondered how frogs defend themselves from predators. I know that all toad species secrete venom from glands behind their eyes, and that some frogs have teeth or claws. But in a fight with a predator like say, a cat, what sort of defenses does a frog have that would let it stand a chance? And not the venomous frogs, just a regular tree frog or something. I get the feeling they secrete some bad tasting substances. But I don't know what else a frog could do against a serious predator.
It's all fun and games until you have to push squirming food down with your eyeballs.
ah, to be a little green frog sitting on a grass field catching small little bugs into my mouth with my tongue
i wanna live in this channel
Would it be possible for the tongue to get stuck in it's stomach? Or like, for the toad to actually completely swallow it's own tongue?
Super 😊
so why exactly these lil fellas closes their eyes when snagging their prey?
What unit do scientists use for tongue softness?
Thats not fair. You gave the poor fellow a toy to eat. He almost died swallowing it
0:50 OMF!
These videos are better by far than your shorts.
Frog sisters this is your mindset
I know there will be some random guy saying : Hear me out
why do they close there eyes everytime the tongue retract?
3:10 People who never learned to swallow pills...
0:13 mario level up
Yo, make a video about gooseneck barnacles
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Hmm tough choice.........
At the end after the toad can't eat the blue caterpillar.
He stands up and looks at what I assume is the researcher.
Looking like
This meal is not fit for me. Bring me something.
I always do good work😊 keep it up❤
Thank you so much 😀