Humans have five senses—sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. Our sense of sight is probably one of the most important. Our eyes are the organs that allow us to see. They do this by sending images to our brains, where the images are interpreted.
Did you notice that the last time I read, I did not read too quickly or too slowly, and I said each of the words accurately? This is how fluent readers read.
You use an important part of your body whenever you eat or talk—your tongue. Animals such as fish, reptiles, birds, and other mammals use their tongues too. Although other animals can't use their tongues for speech like people, they do have amazing tongues. The mammal with the longest tongue for its body size is the tube-lipped nectar bat, which lives in Ecuador. This bat's tongue is about one and a half times the length of its body. The bat uses its long tongue to get nectar from a special funnel-shaped flower. The reptile with the longest tongue is a chameleon. This amazingly long tongue can be twice the length of the lizard. It can also pop out faster than the human eye can follow. A chameleon can grab insects with its sticky tongue in a flash! The giant anteater has a tongue that can reach two feet (60 cm) in length. To trap ants, the anteater coats its tongue in sticky saliva, and then quickly flicks its tongue from its mouth up to 150 times per minute. Blue whales have the largest tongues on earth. Their tongues weigh more than an elephant and are so large that 50 people could stand on it. These tongues help push water out of the whale's mouth before food is swallowed. Snakes touch, taste, and smell with their tongues. Their forked tongues collect things in the air, and then pass them on to special organs in the mouth to figure out what they are. By keeping its tongue in motion, a snake can tell if a meal is nearby. Indeed, tongues are amazing.
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You use an important part of your body whenever you eat or talk—your tongue. Animals like fish, reptiles, birds, and other mammals use their tongues too. Although other animals can't use their tongues for speech like people, they do have amazing tongues. The mammal with the longest tongue for its body size is the tube-lipped nectar bat that lives in Ecuador. This bat's tongue is about one and a half times the length of its body. The bat uses its long tongue to get nectar from a special funnel-shaped flower. The reptile with the longest tongue is a chameleon. This amazingly long tongue can be twice the length of the lizard. [5.1] It can also pop out faster than the human eye can follow. [5.2] A chameleon can grab insects with its sticky tongue in a flash! [5.3] The giant anteater has a tongue that can reach two feet (60 cm) in length. To trap ants, the anteater coats its tongue in sticky saliva, and then quickly flicks its tongue from its mouth up to 150 times per minute. Blue whales have the largest tongues on earth. Their tongues weigh more than an elephant and are so large that 50 people could stand on it. These tongues help push water out of the whale's mouth before food is swallowed. Snakes touch, taste, and smell with their tongues. Their forked tongues collect things in the air, and then pass them on to special organs in the mouth to figure out what they are. By keeping its tongue in motion, a snake can tell if a meal is nearby. Indeed, tongues are amazing.