{"id":4818,"date":"2016-05-17T00:06:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T04:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4818"},"modified":"2016-05-17T00:06:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T04:06:29","slug":"mysteries-of-the-chameleons-amazing-tongue-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/mysteries-of-the-chameleons-amazing-tongue-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysteries of the chameleon&#8217;s amazing tongue, revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4819\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4819\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4819\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/africa-1170042_640.jpg\" alt=\"Image via Pixabay CC0\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/africa-1170042_640.jpg 640w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/africa-1170042_640-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/chameleon-africa-namibia-landscape-1170042\/\">Pixabay CC0<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The chameleon&#8217;s tongue is one of nature&#8217;s wonders &#8211; it relies on a highly specialised structure that allows it to extend to twice the length of its owner&#8217;s body while unravelling telescopically, all rapidly enough to catch passing insects. Now, US and UK scientists have built a mathematical model that explains the mechanics of the chameleon tongue, as well as its energy build-up and rapid release. As the researchers found out, the tongue&#8217;s function relies on a complicated physiological structure, which requires a complex combination of tissue elasticity, active muscular contraction, stress release and geometry.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"highwire-citation-author first has-tooltip hasTooltip\" title=\"\" data-delta=\"0\"><span class=\"nlm-given-names\">Derek E.<\/span> <span class=\"nlm-surname\">Moulton<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"highwire-citation-author has-tooltip hasTooltip\" title=\"\" data-delta=\"1\"><span class=\"nlm-given-names\">Thomas<\/span> <span class=\"nlm-surname\">Lessinnes<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"highwire-citation-author has-tooltip hasTooltip\" title=\"\" data-delta=\"2\"><span class=\"nlm-given-names\">Stephen<\/span> <span class=\"nlm-surname\">O\u2019Keeffe<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"highwire-citation-author has-tooltip hasTooltip\" title=\"\" data-delta=\"3\"><span class=\"nlm-given-names\">Luis<\/span> <span class=\"nlm-surname\">Dorfmann<\/span><\/span>, <span class=\"highwire-citation-author has-tooltip hasTooltip\" title=\"\" data-delta=\"4\"><span class=\"nlm-given-names\">Alain<\/span> <span class=\"nlm-surname\">Goriely<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The elastic secrets of the chameleon tongue\" href=\"http:\/\/rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/472\/2188\/20160030\" target=\"_blank\">Original paper<\/a> published on April 20, 2016 in Proceedings of the Royal Society A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chameleon&#8217;s tongue is one of nature&#8217;s wonders &#8211; it relies on a highly specialised structure that allows it to extend to twice the length of its owner&#8217;s body while unravelling telescopically, all rapidly enough to catch passing insects. Now, US and UK scientists have built a mathematical model that explains the mechanics of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2558,2560,2559,2561],"class_list":["post-4818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-chameleon","tag-chameleons-tongue","tag-quick-energy-release","tag-the-royal-society-of-a"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/africa-1170042_640.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1fI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4919,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4818\/revisions\/4919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}