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bat tongue...
The tube-lipped nectar bat has a tongue that’s longer than its entire body. Anoura fistulata, first discovered in Ecuador in 2005, has only been observed in rare instances, but has just been found in a new place: Bolivia.
Designed to reach deep into flowers to suck out nectar, the bat’s tongue, at 8.5 centimeters (3.3 inches), is 150 percent the size of its body. The root of the tongue, which is up to twice the length of its other Anoura brethren, begins all the way down in the bat’s rib cage. It's the longest tongue (relative to its body) of any mammal.
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A rare Art Nouveau symbolist earthenware ceramic vase designed by Eduard Stellmacher circa 1900-1902 for RStK (Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel) )
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