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Sometimes humans tongues are long enough to touch the tip of their nose, but most of us only have a couple inches of tongue that can stick out of our mouth. Imagine having a tongue that is so long, it can reach out and catch something several inches away! This would be cool if you were a frog. Frog tongues are attached in the front in stead of the back like ours. They fold back and wait for 'supper' to fly by. Once the frog spots it's dinner, the tongue can flick out rapidly, catch dinner with it's sticky mucus, and reel it back in. Then it has small 'teeth' in it's upper mouth that aren't very good for biting, but they help hold the food and break it up a little big. The frogs mouth is where digestion begins, just like for humans, but that's where the resemblance ends. A frog's tongue is very specialized to help him catch his food. He uses his tongue like you would a fishing pole, casting it out, 'hooking' his prey, then reeling it in. Yum!

Resources:
http://lookd.com /frogs/anatomy.html
http://www. learner.org/jnorth/search/Frog Notes3.html
http://library.adva nced.org/11034/anat.htm

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