Why snakes have forked tongues.

作者: K. Schwenk

DOI: 10.1126/SCIENCE.263.5153.1573

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摘要: … We now know that snake tongues are, in fact, involved in chemoreception, but probably not gustation as Aristotle surmised. Rather, the tongue is a delivery mechanism for paired …

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