Amazing Fact Of The Day: Did You Know A Chameleon’s Tongue Is Twice The Length Of Its Body (Must Read)

When you are a cold blooded animal you are bound to slow down when the weather cools. This causes a great loss in potential for capturing prey or escaping from predators. But fascinatingly, for the Chameleon this isn’t the case. The divinely green chameleon is capable of uncurling its long tongue, of twice its body length,
in less than 0.07 seconds! Now that represents a well respected weapon! So, despite the type of weather, the chameleons are going to snare their prey either way!


The ability to shoot out its tongue at such a fast speed is an evolutionary adaptation suiting it to its arboreal environment. And what a marvelous shooting technique it is! Firing out its tongue at even a greater length than its own body provides the perfect sticky trap to pull in insects!