Snake tasting its surroundings
Snakes use their forked tongue as a way to smell,taste and analyse their surroundings. The split tongue helps to determine the direction of the smell. Everything is analyzed by the Jacobson organ in the mouth of the snake.
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Photo credit: © Matthijs Kuijpers / Alamy / Afripics
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