RESEARCH ARTICLES
SOME GROSS OBSERVATIONS ON THE TONGUE OF A TIGER (Panthera tigris)
K.R. Harshan, N. Ashok and P.O. George
Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.1994. 25:63-64.
Copyright: © 1994 K.R. Harshan et.al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The tongue of the tiger showed some special features with regard to the distribution of the various types of papillae. Filiform papillae near the tip were specially designed to lick out flesh from the prey.
