{"id":1883,"date":"2026-05-05T12:13:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T09:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/cikavinky\/yazyk-khameleona-rekord-shvydkosti\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T22:19:48","slug":"yazyk-khameleona-rekord-shvydkosti","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/cikavinky\/yazyk-khameleona-rekord-shvydkosti\/","title":{"rendered":"A chameleon's tongue catches a fly in 0.07 seconds\u2014faster than you blink"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A chameleon's tongue catches a fly in 0.07 seconds\u2014faster than you blink<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Imagine a slingshot. Only a slingshot that sits in your mouth. And it shoots a sticky muscle the length of your body. That's how a chameleon's tongue works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a chameleon sees a fly, the magic begins. It folds a special bone hook in its mouth and stretches its tongue around it like a rubber band on a finger. Then \u2014 a shot. The tongue shoots out at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour! In 0.07 seconds, it flies a distance twice the length of the chameleon\u2019s body.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For comparison: you blink in 0.3 seconds. The chameleon has shot, caught, and retracted its tongue \u2014 and you are just beginning to lower your eyelids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tip of the tongue is not just Velcro. It is covered with mucus, which is 400 times thicker than human saliva! It is as if a fly falls into hot syrup - and can no longer escape. And there is a special "suction cup" on the tip of the tongue, like on a frog's leg. Triple protection - so that no insect can escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, a chameleon shoots from a cold muscle! In the cold, human muscles become slow. And the chameleon's tongue works thanks to a special spiral spring made of collagen fibers. It's like a mechanical watch - it doesn't depend on heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harvard scientists are studying the chameleon tongue to create super-fast robotic grippers. Perhaps in the future, surgeons will perform operations with a "chameleon tongue.".<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you think little lizards do? They set world records. Just when we're not looking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More interesting facts about animals at on the category page<\/a> \u2728<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n

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Try blinking. Didn't have time? And the chameleon had already shot out its tongue, caught the fly and returned it to its mouth.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1882,"parent":1782,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-with-title","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"yasr_overall_rating":0,"yasr_post_is_review":"","yasr_auto_insert_disabled":"","yasr_review_type":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1883","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yasr_visitor_votes":{"stars_attributes":{"read_only":false,"span_bottom":false},"number_of_votes":0,"sum_votes":0},"campaignId":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1883\/revisions\/2136"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kazkaland.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}