[PLAYLIST] Prologue Voice Claim: Nine Inch Nails Epilogue Voice Claim: The Black Queen (Though they can use each other's voices! Epilogue will always sound a little strained and more hoarse, no matter what voice he uses) They make all their own outfits! They are a security detail :) Prologue still calls himself Sun, and he calls Epilogue Moon. They are lovers!! They are NOT technically an Eclipse, despite looking like one!

In this video, this elephant (either Rose-Tu or Shine) is shaking a hay net above her head and catching the bits that fall in her open mouth. Look at how her tongue can roll them into the back of her mouth!

I can't find a good written explanation of why elephant tongues do that. The most I'm finding online is asides about "their tongues being rooted in their mouths" but there's no explanation of that, although it seems to be used to say they don't have a detached/mobile tongue tip.

I did find this diagram in a paper about vocalizations, though, that indicates maybe the main mass of the tongue is really far back in their mouth? That would mean we're seeing them use the body of the tongue to move food back into the mouth.

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Do you perchance have any more details on tongues? I *love* bird tongues. Why are they shaped like that? Are there variations? Are they a unique and stable like fingerprints and human tongues? Are all their tongues the same colour or does it vary based on breed/individual?

I do not have much more information on their tongues. I don't know if they're unique, as I've never looked that closely (nor will I, as it's invasive and stressful to examine the inside of their mouths usually)

The barbs on their tongue are common in fowl as far as I know, for aid in swallowing; they don't really have musculature for swallowing the way we do, gravity does the work for them, so they use their tongues in combination with throwing their heads back to hork stuff like greens and small animals down.